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> From: Kelley <the-squeeze at pulpculture.org>
> Reply-To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 18:05:00 -0400
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org, lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Subject: RE: [lbo-talk] decentralization, Whole Foods style
>
> At 04:33 PM 5/29/03 -0500, Shane Taylor wrote:
>
>> One major point of One Market Under God is that, today, old fashioned
>> anti-Communism or Trad Vals aren't required for a populist backlash
>> against unions and for the free market. Whole Foods adopts the socially
>> conscious variety of this. Superficially, it's a quirky, amusing
>> rationale for union busting. It's easy to dismiss as an aberration. But
>> it's effective and will be less funky the more familiar it becomes.
>>
>> -- Shane
>
> Oh, I think it's very familiar and fits right in line with the glories
> gushing from the pages Tom Peter's been penning since his fist-pounding,
> sweat-dripping revolutionary bizgasms in _In Search of Excellence_.
>
> I honestly don't see how anyone is surprised. Not that you seem so, Shane.
> But I think I'm responding to the "aberration" above. I find it surprising
> that anyone would think this is an aberration. For one thing, we've
> frequently discussed hostilities between Greens and labor on the list. It
> was worthy enough to note that the lesbians were marching with the UAW in
> Seattle and think, Wow, something might be happening here. And the fact is,
> consciousness is shaped by your relation to the means of production, is it
> not? It's not determined by them, no, but that owners of the largest
> natural food store in the nation are opposed to unions is not at all
> surprising. Nor is it especially surprising that Whole Foods thinks they
> can get away with it. It's not like they didn't do any market research on
> the issue before hand, I'm sure. I'm confident that what the number
> crunchers told them was that there just wasn't enough consumers to give a
> rat's ass enough to risk losing their yuppie fucking health shopping
> experience.
>
> feh.
>
> aside from which, and thanks to brian for encouraging a visit to the site,
> if you click around what seems especially important to the fuckers that
> wrote that site is that they're lobbying congress or some such. I mean,
> it's really all becoming about get a leg up in the market by using
> government to pass favorable legislation. It's about self-aggrandizing
> power in the name of their passion and about making sure it's profitable.
>
> triple feh.
>
> i'm fehing at whole foods, though, not you shane. :)
>
> kelley
>
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