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yet all through history of capitalist countries there are never ending stories of corporations abusing workers with slave wages and exceptionally long hours to
by lost_tourist 3y ago
yet all through history of capitalist countries there are never ending stories of corporations abusing workers with slave wages and exceptionally long hours to keep them beat down, especially when said company is an oligopoly and they know they can get away with horrendous conditions because the government turns a blind eye. Often the only way was to form a union and punch where it hurts, in the wallet. Said companies would often hire goons to beat strikers, naturally the strikers didn't like that, so they game back the next day with guns and baseball bats of their own
- ETH_start 3y agoWorkers flocked to the most free market economy in the world in the 19th century, because it offered by far the highest wages. People fled East Germany for West Germany, Cuba for Florida and North Korea for South Korea. >Said companies would often hire goons to beat strikers, naturally the strikers didn't like that, so they game back the next day with guns and baseball bats of their own What this absurd propaganda leaves out is that the striking workers would regularly beat up and even murder replacement workers who crossed their picket line. They called them "scabs" to give themselves a moral license to deal out this violence. They were a violent mob, and were in fact thoroughly infiltrated by the mob, as well as aggressive socialist activists who sought to bring Soviet style mass murder to the West. The companies never had a need to initiate violence against the unions. The unions had no power in a free market. Their only power was in their goons assaulting competing workers and blockading the company to prevent it from moving goods/services.