[lbo-talk] OWS Demands working group: jobs for all!

Mike Beggs mikejbeggs at gmail.com
Thu Oct 20 20:08:08 PDT 2011


On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 1:36 PM, Eric Beck <ersatzdog at gmail.com> wrote:


> Nonsense. The times of full employment in the last century have been
> world war and something as bad, society-wide unpaid reproductive labor
> and unimaginable exploitation in the periphery. It made *some* people
> freer while the rest paid for it horribly. I can't imagine demanding a
> return to that.

The demand would be for 'full employment' not 'capitalist relations as they were circa 1960'. You need to make an argument about how full employment, a state of the labour market, is functionally related to these things. It seems to me they also mark periods without full employment.

Mike



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