The unions are an integral part of the industrial production economy, working with it not against it.
They want a better set of the pie and that's easier if the pie grows. The brainless should not be in banking. — Willem Buiter
Frank Delaney ~ Ireland
ohmmmmm Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.
I suppose it's better than starving. But isn't it almost completely passive otherwise?
But it's such a reliable and useful trope for the right - support this project/person/boondoggle and get Jobs™ - that I'm surprised it hasn't been challenged more often.
- Jake If you only spend 20 minutes of the rest of your life on economics, go spend them here.
Seriously, though, the social democrats have always been about the workers. Other disadvantaged groups have always taken a distinctly secondary position in the socdem programme. The early feminists, for instance, had to fight many of the socdems at least as hard as they had to fight the mommy-stay-at-home conservatives for their emancipation into wider society. They were thought to suppress wages - partly by increasing the number of available warm bodies, partly because there was a fear that they would not unionise properly. (Although to their credit, they came around a lot faster than the conservatives...)
"Socialism" as we know it is a product of the industrial revolution. The brainless should not be in banking. — Willem Buiter
