Date: Mon, 8 Feb 99 15:29:35 EST
From: "Brian J. Callahan" <Brian=J.=Callahan%MT%DFCI-AT-EYE.DFCI.HARVARD.EDU>
Subject: Re: WG: STRIKE


Erik writes:
>Well the whole flaw in this argument rests on the (so-called) premisse that
>"Free choice of job is a condition of the market economy". This is simply
>not true. Freedom of poverty is not freedom. Freedom of being underpaid and
>exploited is not freedom.

Exactly.  If, for instance, someone put a gun to my head and said "Work."  
I'd be perfectly free to say no and have my head blown off.  Similarly, any 
worker is free to quit any job they don't like and just get on without 
luxuries like food, shelter and clothing.  Ahh, the sweet smell of bourgeois 
freedom...intoxicating ain't it?