ID: WookieeMark @EvilGenXer posted:

"OK so look, Capitalism is right wing.

Period.

If you are pro-capitalism, you are Right Wing.

There is no pro-capitalist Left. That’s a polite fiction in the US that no one can afford any longer as the ecosystem is actually collapsing around us."

  • 31337@sh.itjust.works
    3·
    7 hours ago

    I think unionization is very important, and I personally lean toward anarcho-syndicalism, but unions are not hardline anti-capitalist institutions. I guess the term I should have used is that unions definitely want the companys’ “revenue” to increase, not necessarily profit to increase. Nearly every person I’ve known that worked in a union job was conservative (probably more of a reflection of where I lived), and many were very emotionally attached to the company they worked for. I’ve known several Ford plant workers that would disallow any member of the household to own a vehicle from any other manufacturer. I’ve heard that if a worker drove a car from any other manufacturer to work, it would likely get vandalized in the parking lot.

    • LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      2·
      6 hours ago

      I’d say that leans towards what I said at the end. Any form of worker organization can be corrupted. Symptoms of a greater problem, not one of unions specifically. Consumerism and corporatism have made identities out of brands, like in the Ford case you mentioned. That brand and those workers’ associations with it became ways for them to exert a kind of social power. But that could’ve happened whether those workers were unionized or not.