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it's amazing the level of historical blindness that's been descended upon the land here in reactionary valley regarding unions. it's like people who sell their labor power for a wage have been convinced that being utterly powerless is the natural order of things, that it's bad to organize. collective bargaining---and a strongly unionized workforce---was the motor that allowed for the transformation in consumer banking that enabled access to mortgages for working people, then other debt-generating instruments.
because it guaranteed steadily rising wages. so people could acquire debt and have some hope of fucking paying it without being reduced to debt peonage.
the news-speak of the neo-liberal set...the various idiotic propositions concerning unions repeated ad nauseum by the corporate "yay capitalism" press since the reagan period...the lack of historical memory....ach.
the is an instance of class warfare american-style.
it's like the place has regressed to some pre-1848 notion of capitalism.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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