Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 08:37:10 +0100 (BST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Volodya=20V=20Anarhist?= <volodyanarchist-AT-yahoo.com> Subject: Re: [postanarchism] Abuse by employers, etc. (was Fwd: Re: Race Traitor...) > All of us who work for wages get fucked by employers...when we > are lucky > enough to find work. This is the nature of the power > relationship. The > liberal answer to this problem is to look for and define > specific areas of > exploitation and prejudice -- sexism, racism, etc. -- and > establish related > rules ro protect employess from these abuses. But one problem > is, as we know, that these rules don't always work even for > the "protected" > groups. A bigger problem is that employers are free to abuse, > harass, fire > without just cause, and be big incredible assholes to > employees as long as > they can't be proven to have violated the laws protecting > these specific > "protected" groups. > Employees will not be protected by laws based on liberal > identity politics. > The only way to protect people from becoming abused employees > is to end the > employer-employee relationship by putting an end to the wage > system. Short > of that, the best thing to do is to build up networks of > action and > solidarity to build the strength of all employees in their > dealings with > bosses. Unfortunately, that becomes an increasingly tall order > when there is > no revolutionary movement. Some anarchist groups today, in my > experience, > might do lots of symbolic stuff to act in solidarity with > highly publicized > campaigns by specific groups of exploited workers (e.g., > participating in > leafletting campaigns and pickets revolving around the plight > of the people > who pick vegetables for Taco Bell), but they won't -- and > probably aren't > able to -- do anything in sympathy or solidarity when workers > get into > trouble within their own ranks. As for unions...I think we > know the > limitations here. > > A real class-conscious workers' solidarity movement that uses > innovative > approaches and tactics would defend all employees who are > subject to abuse > by employers, regardless of whether they're in a "protected" > group. I still > strongly believe in this ideal (even if I no longer think it's > the one true > path to revolution). Unfortunately, I've gotten very cynical > regarding the > groups that are presently out there and the things that they > actually do. > > Richard I agree with most of what you are saying except for the last part, i believe that class, just like race, gender, sexuality should be abolished as a way to divide persons. I think that at the end all are screwed over by employment (even employers), just like i think that cops are the most repressed by police force. And although it is very hard to feel any sympathy and impossible to have empathy for those who are tools of oppression, but i know that for me all divisions must go. Free your mind and seek the truth. - VolodyA! V Anarhist P.S. Lost and Found I have been born myself, The rest i have been taught. I learned i had the history When i was very young. I think i was of species Who ruled entire Earth; I was told i had a race And should be proud of it; I heard of nationality Which guided who i was; I learned that i was Citizen And was obliged to serve; I noticed i had gender That gave me yet more rules; I was given sexuality To complement the sex; I was forced into age That somehow changed each year; I also got intelligence Represented by numbers; I guessed i had a class According to some theories; I later picked the status Provided by the codes; I chose an occupation That i was forced to have. I found all those things That made me very lost, So i just lost them all To find me in now. 2002May 28 1999Dec890 VolodyA! V A ====http://gendarmesleeps.narod.ru/ When Gendarme Sleeps http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WhenGendarmeSleeps/ http://www.rrbbs.com/ Robert Reed's BBS http://www.renegadewriters.org/ http://www.angelfire.com/mn2/anarchistpoetry/ http://www.visualbasicforum.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ Want to chat instantly with your online friends? Get the FREE Yahoo! Messenger http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com/
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