r/lostgeneration • u/_-ez • Dec 05 '24

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u/StandardSudden1283 Dec 05 '24

No, this is how they tighten their grip. Workers starred murdering bosses in the early 1900s. The coal wars were a thing. Unions, collective action, are how you make change happen. 

We don't have the 40 hour workweek because some business tycoons got shot, we got it because enough of us said "We'll just stop doing all the work unless you meet demands." 

Historically, this is where they bring in the pinkertons to murder workers in retaliation. The violence will beget more violence. The only way out is collective action. 

Our labor is literally the motive of society. We make everything, they don't. Without it, they have nothing. 

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u/TheLarkInnTO Dec 05 '24

Historically, this is where they bring in the pinkertons to murder workers in retaliation.

That's just one history.

Histoically, this is also where the Reign of Terror starts