Re:Amazon fires employees who supported “yellow vest” blocka...
by entity345 on Monday February 04, 2019 @09:36AM
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> On the one hand they are socialist
A significant number of Yellow vests are on the far right or at least indeed a French version of Trump-ism.
Re:Amazon fires employees who supported “yellow vest” blocka...
by mc32 on Monday February 04, 2019 @09:40AM
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My point is this workers’ movement is problematic for the left because they are a ‘90s labor movement, a pre WTO movement and don’t adhere to what the current left envisions as a proper labor movement despite having all the trappings of a labor movement they generally support.
So this makes it clear the modern left cares about politics more than labor in and of itself.
When other labor movements have Marxist elements people don’t typically say, yes, but they have a bunch of marxists too, otherwise I’d support them.
Re:Amazon fires employees who supported “yellow vest” blocka...
by entity345 on Monday February 04, 2019 @09:46AM
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The problem, in France at least, is that the people on the left with currently the most support are leftists who support people like Maduro in Venezuela and seek to destroy capitalism...
That is to say: There is no credible powerful force on the left.
On the one hand they are socialist, on the other hand they are seen as the French version of Trump supporters, so people who would ordinarily overlook their antiestablishmentarisnim aren’t (damaging private property, blockades, etc.), but on the other hand government strong tactics (teargas, student arrests, which is usually decried).
In essence, they are conflicted because they identify with workers’ movements just not this workers’ movement.