I was just wondering: who all here is actually in a union? I've been
surprised by the negative attitudes some people have, where I live,
towards unions, even people that could benefit by them. There seems to
be a notion that union members are more "lazy" because they're not as
afraid of being fired! And also, since being in a union naturally
prevents you from going into a position where you have the power to
"hire or fire" anyone, I've heard some say that they shun unions because
they want to "climb the corporate ladder." What a joke. I think it's sad
that they've been instilled with the desire to become someone else's
overlord, and equate this with "success," and would forego solidarity to
achieve it. They're aspirants to the comissar class, and are being lead
into their materialistic oblivion like a donkey lured by the
never-attainable carrot....
I'm a member of the National Writers Union, which became affiliated
with the UAW in 1984. If you are a poet, screenwriter, essayist,
scholar, or freelance writer, I heartily recommend it. They're not
afraid to quote Karl Marx in their pamphlets and literature. The IWW is
also an excellent organization.
Liberty and peace...
B. Oliver Sheppard
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--
"If it is correct, as I believe it is, that a fundamental element of
human nature is the need for creative work or creative inquiry, for free
creation without the arbitrary limiting effects of coercive
institutions, then of course it will follow that a decent society should
maximize the possibilities for this fundamental human characteristic to
be realized. Now, a federated, decentralized system of free associations
incorporating economic as well as social institutions would be what I
refer to as anarcho-syndicalism. And it seems to me that it is the
appropriate form of social organization for an advanced technological
society, in which human beings do not have to be forced into the
position of tools, of cogs in a machine. " -- Prof. Noam Chomsky, MIT
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