Heads I Win, Tails You Lose - Recessions and Labor Unions

[Magda Hassan]

In truth, they’ll use anything—Hurricane Katrina, the swine flu, the price of oil, the GNP of Venezuela, anything!—to avoid parting with their money.

In actual truth that money is created by the workers and stolen from them. Just as in slave owning days it was considered perfectly normal and just that one human being could own another and keep all of the production of that slave in a capitalist society it is considered normal and just to keep the value of all produced by the worker. The slave was fed and housed. The worker is given cash and has to feed and house himself. The difference between what the worker is paid and the realised price of what they produce is kept by the owner (or shareholders) as their own private property to do with as they please and they sure don't want to spend it on their workers who it rightfully belongs to. However, in the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie that we live in the law reflects the ideas of the ruling class just as the law reflected the ideas of slave owners in those times.

When the bank executives were asked to take a pay cut and/or forego their bonuses it was poo pooed by them and their class mates and they would say things like "We are a nation of laws. If you do not uphold the law and respect the contract to which these men have signed up to it will lead to anarchy and ...blah ...blah....blah" Naturally, only the contracts of those executives must be respected as those of the people that actually produce anything and create real wealth (for others to reap) are fully negotiable at any time for any reason by anyone other than themselves. So much for all equal before the law.

The divide and rule is used very effectively by the ruling class to keep the working class from being the formidable force it can be. There is nothing of this world so powerful as a united working class. There is nothing so useless as the parasite class. This is well understood by the parasites.

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