Labour Party and the Unions

[Jim heartfield]

Max and Seth both ask what I'm for.

Socialisation of the means of production - what G Lukacs called
'societal self-determination'.

The problem with the Labour Party was that its programme was against
socialisation, for nationalisation. Since it's been tried in practice we
know that that is no academic distinction. Nationalised industries
exploited, abused and finally dismissed their employees just as readily
as private ones. In fact, the National Coal Board's record of deaths at
work is second to none in Britain.

The difficulty with the left is that it is caught between two
alternatives that are both defined by capitalist society: the free
market and the state. Both are specific to capitalism, both need to be
overcome.

In the here and now, the immediate problem facing any kind of social
change is a culture of low expectations and the internalisation of
victimhood.




In message <000301bedc9a$43f11560$d818c897 at sawicky.bellatlantic.net>,
Max B. Sawicky <sawicky at epinet.org> writes
>
>You're consistent in what you're against,
>but mysterious in what you're for.

In message <000601bedc9d$03b62f00$d818c897 at sawicky.bellatlantic.net>,
Max B. Sawicky <sawicky at epinet.org> writes
>My continuing effort to get the bottom of LM . . .
>
>In one place in your post, Bro. Heartfield 

> suggests some kind of support for nationalized industries.
>But later he 

> suggests good riddance to nationalized industries.
>
>So which is it?  Should Labour have supported them, tried to revive them,
>or proposed something different, and if the latter, WHAT?

In message <518B8516EDC0D011BE3F00C04FD4EE5A158335 at smtp.fair.org>, Seth
Ackerman <SAckerman at FAIR.org> writes
>       What would this entail?

-- 
Jim heartfield