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[-] LadyAutumn 50 points 1 year ago

Neoliberalism is how people think like this. In order to stop the wave of strikes, protests, and violent demonstrations for workers rights the capitalist ruling class started heavily pushing the doctrine that "All acts of violence are always morally wrong". They indoctrinate children into it through the education system and mass media. The intent was to stall the progress of workers rights movements in the long term, and it worked exactly as they intended.

[-] TotallynotJessica@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

The biggest thing people don't understand is that governments exerting control necessitates violence, as laws are only recommendations otherwise.

[-] PostmodernPythia@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

The question of whether something should be a law should always consider: “Is this worth using violence to enforce?”

You're correct, it's just a bit demotivating. There must be some way to reinvigorate the labor movement both in the United States and globally, but I'm not entirely sure how. I think the labor movement in the U.S. has recovered a bit from the massive damage that the Reagan administration caused it, but it's slow-moving.

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