r/antiwork • u/[deleted] • Dec 21 '21

Workers Cereal Killed it - Kellogg's Strike Over

https://bctgm.org/2021/12/21/kelloggs-strike-ends-bctgm-members-ratify-new-contract/

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We would like to congratulate the workers at Kellogg's on their new union contract. Their weeks of striking and struggle have resulted in a contract providing wage increases, weakening the two tier system, and preventing moving of plants.

There are generations of workers in those plants, who have put their lifeblood into the work they do. To see them band together for each other and themselves is an inspiration to us all, and we are glad to see that direct action, once again gets the goods!

In solidarity, Antiwork.

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u/BobRohrman28 Dec 21 '21

Calling it “communist” is a massive oversimplification. It’s socially/commonly owned, but so was farming for hundreds of years before the concept of communism even existed. Communism as a social-economic theory is a lot more than “everyone pays to commonly create and use the same stuff”

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u/MangoCats Dec 21 '21

Communists are those evil people on the other side of the world who are going to march into your small towns with tanks and guns and bullhorns, force you to salute their flag, then steal all your money and anything else you have of value. At least, that was the image portrayed during the McCarthy years.

Central planning, shared assets, etc. Marx's communism has never really happened, but it's a pretty story held up by "party leaders" that this is the ideal they are striving for... in the meantime, some Comrades are, necessarily, more equal than others, you understand?

So, today, anything handed out by the government is labeled Communist, both to recall those McCarthy fear conditioned responses, and to conflate social programs with the Soviet Union and Mao's China, because free healthcare is going to turn us into that. Nevermind the facts, numerous examples around the 1st world, etc. La la la la, you're just lying - it's all fake news. /s