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  • zd9@lemmy.worldtoComic Strips@lemmy.worldWeekend
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    3 months ago

    It’s a shame they don’t teach in school just how hard unions and the workers of America had to fight to get the rights we think of as default today.

    They went to literal war with their companies and the government multiple times. Look up the Coal Wars, look up the Haymarket affair, look up Matewan, look up Lucy Parsons. We have a long history of worker’s rights, but since WW2 the ruling capitalists learned not to give the working class too many ideas to get too uppity.

    We are well overdue for this kind of activity again.


  • It’s evil to be in the hands of the dirty stupid general public since they are inferior, but it’s godly for money to be in the hands of Authority because by definition Authority is perfect and good.

    I’m kind of kidding but as I was writing that I realized that’s actually true, especially historically. Religion was the sole tool for control of the underclass. It’s still there, but its influence is waning, and authoritarians are leaning more on technology for control these days.