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