Introduction My experience with workers has been that workers rarely if ever think about why they and other workers have to work for an employer--they experience a lack of class consciousness. In this series of posts, I am simply going to assemble a series of quotes from various authors about this situation, with my own … Continue reading A Lack of Working-Class Conciousness Among Workers and Some Proposed Solutions, Part One
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El socialismo, la policía y el gobierno o el Estado, primera parte
Read this post in English [Utilicé ChatGPT (Inteligencia Artificial) para traducir la versión en inglés al español.] El Sr. Gindin, en su artículo We Need to Say What Socialism Will Look Like, argumenta lo siguiente: Las expectativas de abundancia plena o casi plena, sumadas a una conciencia social perfecta o casi perfecta, tienen una consecuencia … Continue reading El socialismo, la policía y el gobierno o el Estado, primera parte
The Radical Left Needs to Call into Question Existing Social Institutions at Every Opportunity, Part Five
Introduction Before I obtained a so-called permanent teaching position (I will explain in a much later post why I use the word "so-called"), I worked for a number of years as a substitute teacher (with short periods of term teaching positions). I became an executive member of the Winnipeg Teachers' Association (WTA) (in the province … Continue reading The Radical Left Needs to Call into Question Existing Social Institutions at Every Opportunity, Part Five
Socialism, Police and the Government or State, Part One
Mr. Gindin, in his article We Need to Say What Socialism Will Look Like argues the following: The expectations of full or near-full abundance, added to perfect or near-perfect social consciousness, have a further consequence: they imply a dramatic waning, if not end, of substantive social conflicts and so do away with any need for an “external” … Continue reading Socialism, Police and the Government or State, Part One
Unions and Safety on Jobs Controlled by Employers
The following tries to explain why unions do not adequately address the safety concerns of rank-and-file workers who work for an employer. Of course, safety conditions in non-unionized settings may be even worse, but we should not idealize unionized settings either. They are better than non-unionized settings, generally, but they remain inadequate since workers' safety … Continue reading Unions and Safety on Jobs Controlled by Employers
The Issue of Health and Safety in the Workplace Dominated by a Class of Employers
I submitted an article for the popular education journal Our Schools/Our Selves concerning the issue of safety (and the lack of critical thinking skills that is embodied in two Ontario curricula on Equity and Social Justice). In that article, I quote: More than 1000 employees die every year in Canada on the job, and about … Continue reading The Issue of Health and Safety in the Workplace Dominated by a Class of Employers
