Sigh... We're going to have to fight that fight again, aren't we?
I think it's more likely we're just going to get the Pinochet solution which is just beating people until they go back to work.
But these times the kids are not forced to work. Instead they are given innovative career opportunities that they accept out of their own free will.
Also, being allowed to work gives children the opportunity to help their families out of debt, help their families live in an apartment instead of a car or pay for medication. The woke tankie left would rather have that these children went without all of these things.
If you're not raising one kid as an investment to pay for your other kids' futures, you're not being a lionmom. A lionmom has to be prepared to eat her cubs.
The market's ability to coerce has gotten much more abstract then it was then. It creates need and you have to come up with sacrifices to it, rather than having them be demanded of you.
We also killed and committed mass sabotage. Capital doesn't give a fuck until an organized movement with clear demands directs violence and destruction at them.
Edit for any :fedposting:s:
Adventurism = bad
Direct action = good
cant wait for the news to start spinning off stories of children working dangerous jobs so they can feed family as wholesome 100 cool and epic.
oh wait they already do
All worker protections are relics of a time when workers had power. They'll go back to the gilded age the second their profits demand it.
Boy I'm sure glad we settled for social democracy and have continued to rest on our laurels since then
I worked in a locally owned restaurant for these past 2 years, turnover has gotten so bad they are hiring elderly family and their friend's 15 year-olds. It's literally the end of the 3rd Reich out there
Werewolf soldiers of 10 year olds and 85 year olds working 17 hour days at Cinnabon for the boating class.
What are they gonna do a month later when all the child laborers are burnt out? Can't scrape the bottom of the barrel forever
12 year olds.
Then cut any state funding for retirement care for those over 75.
The 65 year olds need their Outback Steakhouse Bloomin Onions NOW.
Kids don't want to do homework but instead of free time they do labour
Understood, I was reacting to the unnecessary sectarianism
Not really sectarian, it's supportive of actual anarchists to dunk on clearly fake ones who have made it about their personal battle with bedtimes.
We can dunk on non-intersectional "Marxists" all day, after all.
I'm glad to say that the majority of anarchists aren't like that
Always great to see the Ol' homeland keeping up its grand traditions of being an absolute hole
I know that a lot of the high school.kids at my job are doing it for the "treats". I would say at least a couple are doing it to cover up weed dealing money from their parents. Honestly, as school funding starts going to shit and after school stuff goes away and there are no community centers, high school friend groups get jobs so they can hang out together.
I guess that's all a long way of saying that we don't have to force kids to work. We just have to make it look like fun and make sure it's the only thing to do after school. We have had 15 year olds disappointed that we don't hire under 16. They wanna be like their friends who work and can buy shiny stuff.
[insert that boring ass passage from capital volume 1 where Marx spends pages and pages outlining the absolutely awful working conditions and hours that children endured in England in the first half of the 19th century here]
