Jerkface (any/all)

It is much better for the working class to weild its authority than the Capitalist class.

Unfortunately, I don’t believe that. Humans don’t come in two flavours.

I think unfettered capitalism and the systems of power that you propose are both hostile, inhuman systems. I think that meaningful voluntary social systems have to be able exist within that context, and cannot replace it. I don’t believe that eight billion humans can form a single community; our capacity to be social breaks down, and we collectively become something else that we don’t really have a lot of power or comprehension over. I suspect that attempting to work on that superhuman scale can only bring greater conflict and chaos. I think that the enlightened human has to disengage from it, stop identifying with it, and instead find human-scale social constructs that we are capable of existing socially within, that are voluntary and free of coercion, and that seeks to address the social deficiencies of the ambient environment, whether that’s an empty wasteland, or a metropolis.

Jesus, it was your word. If you didn’t want to be pinned down to it, why apply it to yourself in the first place. Feel free to pick a better one, I’ll wait.

You know what the single most powerful force in human history is?

Organization.

This is a subjective statement.

Organization. Which is always hierarchal.

This is an untrue statement.

You know what the most common attribute of Anarchist revolutions is? They all failed. Every single one of them. That is what you want. Failure.

Save this one until you are crowing at me from the parapets of your Utopia. Oh wait, it has to be global, so I guess I’m the one inside the walls.

All states are authoritarian

It is not a binary distinction. It is also not something all ideologies seek to use as a tool. Rather, some seek to minimize it. I think you are telling me Marxism is an ideology that seeks to fully utilize authoritarianism, almost as though it WERE a binary distinction, and there is no point in going half way.

Overall I take your response in support of authoritarianism to mean you would have found that a less objectionable definition.

Would you have quibbled less if I had said “authoritarianism” instead of “violence”? I wasn’t trying to be slanted, that was genuinely my impression of what the term meant.

You cannot have Marxist views if you are not in favor of using violence to impose Marxist ideals?

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tankies (ie people who endorse violence as a valid path forward from right here) == marxists?? man, i don’t know jack

Well, I’m not an employer. You’ll have to define what “bootlicker” means to you. Go ahead, I dare you.

Are you also endorsing fraud and sabotage? It sure seems like you are.

No, it’s on the same level as “make major life changes” to either a depressed person, or someone working in a non-union environment. There is no analogy needed. Sometimes you cannot make major life changes, even if it might help with significant problems. But we don’t know that. It’s valid advice. Unlike everything else said in this thread.

None of that elaborate rationalization you just performed changes anything. You admit you counseled something unethical, but you want to insist that reflects on OP, not on you. So now it’s not just a failure of integrity, but it’s also sophistry.

I know most of the comments here are from ignorant disinterested observers who aren’t really thinking through what they are saying, but man. If the first thing you think of is fraud and sabotage when your employer acts within the boundaries of your contract, you’re a bad person.

They drive well enough, but less well. Why be hard of hearing if you don’t have to be? With no slight of the (big-D) Deaf intended.

There are two camps in this thread. On one side you have people saying to move to a workplace with a union. On the other hand you have people advising criminal retaliation, vandalism, sabotage, and fraud. And you have a problem with the unionists.

Typical of the practicality and savvy of the answers given in this thread

you’re confabulating

Or, conduct yourself with integrity. Advising someone to compromise their integrity is pretty shitty.

Of COURSE they don’t 100% trust fallible human beings with their multi million dollar assets and consignments. It’s not insulting unless you are all up in your ego, any more than having to sign something saying that you’ve inspected the cargo is.

And if you do anything company doesn’t like you will be punished.

Doesn’t change anything. You don’t have to swim faster than the shark, you just have to swim faster than the worst trucker on staff. Just means that they have better data to make the same decisions they were already making. It’s all zero-sum and if it’s bad for one trucker, it’s good for another who was until now going without recognition.

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20 years ago truckers were offended by GPS tracking