guygeneric

guygeneric t1_j24i03i wrote

You fool, that would never work! It would be anarchy! Chaos! Our skin would fray and our eyes would boil out of our heads! The fish would all die and locusts would swarm our crops! Traffic lights would all go down, and buses would disintegrate, and the bags inside of cereal boxes would all open properly until about halfway across and then suddenly split down the middle!

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guygeneric t1_irakfmo wrote

That is a very simplistic understanding of the labor history of the US and UK. Social progress wasn't made "because our governments hit the factory and mine owners like a ton of bricks". Those governments have historically been on the side of the companies, usually just acting straight-up as tools and weapons for the capitalists. It wasn't until the working class in those countries became highly organized and militant, and threatened revolutionary action against both the government and the capitalists (backed up by the successful example of the Russian revolution) that critical segments of the political and economic leadership decided it was better to make concessions than to risk being overthrown.

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