!labour@hexbear.net is a union / labour organizing specific comm.
Any syndicalist comrades who want to work with me on this comm are also welcome. DM me and we’ll figure it out.
Hexers, what kind of content / resources do you want to see in c/labour? I'm thinking guides, news, pro-union art, propaganda, and memes.
Let's make one big comm for one big union.
I'm going to side with "Opposition of unions, isn't the same thing as critiquing a particular union's actions or decisions that the union movement may have made at a moment in time."
That's not what I'm talking about. In the 60s, the French left argued that they were in a revolutionary situation, but that the unions were acting as a pacifying force that was channeling revolutionary activity into wage struggles. That's a pretty broad criticism. Lenin argued that trade unions could only lead to a limited class conciousness that wasn't revolutionary, that's a pretty broad criticism.
I think we should make it clear there's room for that kind of discourse.
But does this criticism equate to "unions are always bad and should never be supported or joined" or "unions aren't the revolutionary communist vanguard that some people want them to be"?
Because the former seems to violate the rules of this comm (and I agree with this rule) and the latter is probably a correct take that will need to be discussed constantly (which shouldn't normally be a violation of this comm's rules).
It equates to "unions are the enemy during revolutionary situations"
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No all enemies are bad, so I'm fine agreeing with you.