Trade unions seem like a handy way for workers to organise, albeit with some exceptions, like say cop unions.
- What place do they have in socialist society? They exist in at least Cuba and China, but Solidarity in Poland enjoyed CIA funding.
- What benefits do they offer workers in these societies that aren’t already offered by a socialist state, or do they serve a different role?
- How does one convince people of the benefit of trade unions in spite of their fear of corruption of said unions in non-socialist states?
Again, I could be going about it all wrong but yeah.
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On the corruption point: corruption is possible in any organization. It’s a concern, but there’s nothing about unions that make them more prone to it than anything else.
Excellent point!
Swirling in my head are a lot of comments, thoughts, and questions about labor unions, especially in the imperial core, and even more especially in Burgerland. All I’ll say now is: shaky critical support for anticommunist yellow unions, which is what virtually all Burgerland unions are. I’m curious what modernish-day Marxist/ML thinkers and/or books there are on the topic.
Oeh new term noted, thanks. Are the Starbucks unions emerging yellowed yet? Some pretty young people leading them I hear, wonder if they’ve started off toothless due to inexperience.
