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Thursday, January 06, 2011

We don't have a labor party

We have a a political party representing enterprise ownership, the Republicans, but we don't have a political party representing the interests of we the people who do the work—physical and mental—that produces wealth. Just to remind you, ALL wealth is created by human labor, again both mental & physical. The Democrats are hard at work appeasing the Republicans.

Unions? Give me a break! When they abandoned the fight for real full employment wherein anyone willing and able to work could get a job that pays a living wage, union stopped working for "labor". They began working for their own self-interest, or—to put it bluntly—for the self-interest of union executives.

Labor vs. enterprise ownership is not class warfare. It is the struggle for the equitable and fair distribution of the profits, or wealth, that labor creates.

The owners actively pursue some form of slavery or indentured servitude in order to reap an unfair share of profits. The history of Western Civilization with the emergence of capitalism out of feudalism clearly show us this.