In Reply to: Re: The sides are capitalism and workers? Really?? Perhaps not for a nitwit! posted by The Nit Nurse on June 11, 1996 at 14:16:37:
> >> Got it now...Socialist Worker Party? Revolutionary Communist
Party?
> >> Arise comrades! The revolution is coming! Strike a blow for the
proletariat!> > Sorry? Did I say that anywhere?
> The rhetoric is familiar. Do I need to quote your 'global socio-economic
> system' diatribe and how we must unite to 'campaign for a
> total change'?.. or the rant about the 'capitalist world' and the liberal
> peppering of 'workers' throughout your posting... or the fact that you
> see organisations like McSpotlight and workers organisations such
> as the TU 'useful' - 'useful' for what?Jesus! you ARE paranoid. In fact as paranoid as McD who labels anyone who
makes the slightest mention of fair wages and conditions of work as TU
supporter, subversive element, supporter of revolutionary parties etc etc
and quickly moves to get rid of them in order to "purify" their workforce
(as an example, check out the witness statements on McSpotlight to find
out what happened to "McD Freedom Fighters" at Colchester McD for
daring to criticise the management).You are also behind times by at least a decade. Show me any serious
commentator these days who does not talk in terms of 'global system'.
And show me anyone who does not agree this system is predominantly
capitalistic. Using this kind of terminology and wanting a fairer and more
equitable system does not make one a rigid bigoted "revolutionary" of
the kind that you are implying. Wake up man, the paranoia of the cold
war era and the parochialist view of the world are long dead and buried
as a credible philosophy.And yes, in the age of information, organisations like McSpotlight can
play an important role in helping to bring about a more equitable
distribution of information in order to give people a wider choice and
enable them to make informed decisions about the kind of the social
system they wish to live under. If this is too much for you to swallow,
then that is your problem!Now the knob of the matter is that people like you who have a narrow
view of the current world social structure have little problem in accepting
corporations like McD as legitimate contributors to the social well-being
of our community just because they provide employment opportunities
for a few people. You have little concern for the wider aspects of these
corporations' affect on the environment they are operating within (such
as exploitation of workers, pollution and systematic destruction of
environment, brainwashing of children, encouragement of unhealthy diet
etc etc). You are therefore unable to understand that despite provision of
employment, the overall contribution of these companies can be
negative. Hence your argument in favour of the status quo!As far as I am concerned though, corporations like McD encapsulate and
represent all thatıs wrong with the current global social system - eg.
exploitation of workers, wastage of limited natural resources, deception
of consumers, production of products that is harmful to the consumersı
health etc etc. - And yes I do agree that McD and other similar
companies can provide some benefit to the community by giving jobs to
a relatively small number of people, but this does not blind me to the fact
that their overall damage to the society far outweighs the limited benefits
that they may bring.You and other defenders of the status quo and big corporations can not
hide this simple truth no matter how much you accuse me and other like-
minded people of armchair revolutionalism, hypocrisy and whatever
other ³intellectual² insult you may think of.