The socialists takes their identity from the workers position in the industrial society, the farmers party from the farmers position in the industrial society.
To merge these an overriding identity and narrative needs to form. A vote for PES is a vote for EPP! A vote for EPP is a vote for PES! Support the coalition, vote EPP-PES in 2009!
Arguably, the small self-employed operators are victims of classical Marxist "false consciousness" syndrome. They think they are capitalists/independent and even small employers, when in reality they are more under the thumb of agribusiness than direct employees are. notes from no w here
One-person franchises in all corporations, unite! A vote for PES is a vote for EPP! A vote for EPP is a vote for PES! Support the coalition, vote EPP-PES in 2009!
The whole business of subcontracting work to nominally independent self-employeed contractors is all about avoiding the legal and other obligations that socialists have established for the employer/employee relationship. Arguably, the small self-employed operators are victims of classical Marxist "false consciousness" syndrome. They think they are capitalists/independent and even small employers, when in reality they are more under the thumb of agribusiness than direct employees are.
Arguably, the small self-employed operators are victims of classical Marxist "false consciousness" syndrome. They think they are capitalists/independent and even small employers, when in reality they are more under the thumb of agribusiness than direct employees are.
These are important points, and I find it hard to fathom how socialist parties have failed to grasp them.
- Jake If you only spend 20 minutes of the rest of your life on economics, go spend them here.
To merge these an overriding identity and narrative needs to form.
it's forming here and now on this thread!
climate change will continue to force the unwilling to acknowledge the price of externalities, be it through insurance risk, or resource shortage.
once that veil of ignorance is riven, then the union of workers, industrial and agricultural could better occur.
so rive it we will! (with a lot of help from Gaia). ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
