CHOMSKY Archives

The philosophy, work & influences of Noam Chomsky

CHOMSKY@LISTSERV.ICORS.ORG

Options: Use Forum View

Use Monospaced Font
Show Text Part by Default
Show All Mail Headers

Message: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]
Topic: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]
Author: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]

Print Reply
Subject:
From:
William Meecham <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:
The philosophy, work & influences of Noam Chomsky
Date:
Tue, 24 Jun 1997 11:14:39 -0700
Content-Type:
text/plain
Parts/Attachments:
text/plain (51 lines)
Workers below are invited to migrate to growing industries.  What are
they? wrapping ground cow?
wcm
>
> Don Brayton wrote:
>
> >Right now, in America at least, most workers, right down to the junkie
> >sweeping a sidewalk are voting with their hands (staying and working ) or
> >their feet (quitting and leaving).  That's because it is against the law
> >to forcibly detain an individual who has not caused harm.  And such laws
> >are usually enforced.   Like water seeking its own level,  workers are
> >free to migrate from dying industries to growing industries, from
> >incompetently managed businesses to competently managed businesses, from
> >criminal organizations to ethical organizations, from low pay to high
> >pay,  from poor benefits to better benefits, from  New Jersey to Hawaii,
> >etc.
>
> Yes, but capital is free to migrate from Australia to China, from the US to
> Brazil. Labour is not so free.
>
> But in any case, freedom to choose a slave master is not enough, and in any
> case that even freedom to choose a master is FAR from universal. Workers
> are NOT free to migrate to competently managed business because of
> unemployment, many have the freedom but to steal or starve.
>
> >If you feel sorry for those who are stuck in dying, incompetently
> >managed, criminal low paying and poor benefit companies in New Jersey, do
> >something for them.  Don't kill the system of mobility.  Organize with
> >similarly minded people, contact the workers and educate them.  One
> >dedicated teacher can change the lives of hundreds.
>
> Who said anything about killing the system of (limited) mobility? Kill the
> system of exploitation? Yes!
> >
> >Hell, teach the workers how to take responsibility, now, by buying stock
> >and taking over the company ... all within the capitalist system which
> >provides a ready made vehicle for ownership. Capitalism is not our enemy,
> >the use of force is.
>
> There's a problem, I think you know what it is  - money. They have it, we
> don't. Why? Not because they earned it, we did. Not because they deserve it
> (look around you), so how do you propose we buy it back. You don't buy back
> stolen property, it would be immoral.
>
> Do we have the right to take it back, to change the system? Read your
> Thomas Jefferson.
>
> Bill Bartlett
> Bracknell Tasmania
>

ATOM RSS1 RSS2