> won't even be any solidarity between Indian and African workers. China in particular violently suppresses unions How are these two points related? > because

> won't even be any solidarity between Indian and African workers. China in particular violently suppresses unions How are these two points related? > because they believed it'll result in China outcompeting all other developing countries in manufacturing Oh dear, no. In particular English speaking westerners really struggle to assign correct motivations, they. struggle to imagine different thinking processes. Opressive governments like China and Russia has three properties One - any act of spontaneous self organisation by the population is dangerous. In Russia the police raaids chess clubs and charities that plant trees. Why? Because fuck em, some weirdos organising by themselves, without approval, how dare they. two - they are paranoid - what if this organisation X is actually a front, organised by my political enemy? Remember, we are deeppy cynical here, noone organises for a common good, people only organise if someone is concocting a plan for gain or profit three - any civil motion os percieved as disorder. If you are a governor in a opr3ssive regime, and you dont want to interveine in manufacturing dispute, you will have people above you calling you, asking why do you have a mess in your region. Why cant you do your job. So if you run a genuine charity in Russia, you get raided by police immediately -you might be seen as a threat. But if you run a fake charity, and in fact just steal all the donations, then police doesn't really care. The throughts about 'our manufacturing is not competitive if we allow strikes' is not the top concern