Corporate America Only Stops When Workers Do: A Caller Explains the Power of a General Strike

A radio caller exposes how corporations exploit workers and why collective action is the only force that can stop systemic abuse.

"Adorno is usually caricatured as some ivory tower mandarin ruminating on abstruse aesthetic questions, so why would a group of angry communist workers recommend reading him? Because Adorno undertook a critique of capitalist society without “affirmative traits,” that refuses to make its peace with the wrong world and become “a piece of politics” and “the prey of power.” Adorno’s thought is far from “solipsistic and reality-distant,” as it is often portrayed, but rather is rooted in an understanding of Marx’s critique of political economy that is superior in many ways to that of his contemporaries.

While so many other Marxists thought there was something ‘progressive’ or even ‘socialist’ about state-organized wage labor, it’s Adorno who recognizes that “exchange is still the key to society” — that the sale of labor-power, that “objective abstraction” in which we exchange “the same for the same and simultaneously the same for the not-same” conceals and reproduces “the entirety of class relations.” “The total movement of society” is “antagonistic from the outset,” and “society remains class struggle” — and for him, this is a wholly negative category, just as it is for workers. Being a productive laborer is not a piece of luck, but a curse, and we appreciate Adorno because he’ll admit what we know from experience."

https://isr.press/Adorno_on_Society/index.html

#Capitalism #Marxism #CriticalTheory #WageSlavery #LaborPower #PoliticalEconomy

“Starbucks is on the ropes as its competitors are thriving. Investors should know that if Starbucks continues to stonewall and fight with union baristas, they aren’t afraid to do what it takes to win the fair contract that they’ve earned. This includes going on strike if they must, which has the potential to further damage the brand.” ✊

#Labor #UnionPower #StarbucksUnionized #ContractNegotiations #WorkerPolitics #LaborPower #WorkingClassPolitics

https://inthesetimes.com/article/starbucks-union-bargaining-sbwu-strike-lynne-fox-nicchols

“Since the White House seized control of the center in February, staff members who work on its cultural and educational programming have become increasingly angered and alarmed by mounting signs of managerial chaos, layoffs and political meddling in the historically bipartisan cultural organization. On May 15, Kennedy Center staff announced their intention to form a union with the United Auto Workers...’” ✊

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https://inthesetimes.com/article/kennedy-center-trump-takeover-labor-union

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US unions winning big gains amid ‘Great Reset’ in worker power

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/24/us-unions-successes-contracts?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other #UnionYes #Union #LaborPower #LaborRights #OrganizedLabor