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Unions are the product of free markets.
by orthecreedence 5y ago
Unions are the product of free markets.
- mc32 5y agoSo there were no unions in the Soviet Union and no unions in North Korea? That’s good to know.
- orthecreedence 5y agoYou're being obtuse. Unions in the USSR and unions in a free market capitalist system serve different purposes. There is some truth to what you're saying though: unions exist where there is a struggle between labor and private ownership. The existence of them in a "socialist" mode of production (barring some kind of syndicalist setup in which economic governance happens specifically through unions) seems superfluous and suggests that private ownership had not been abolished but was relegated to the state/bureaucracy instead of wealthy holders of capital.