• ✺roguetrick✺@lemmy.world
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    Liberals are under no illusion as to how workers rights were run. That’s why they did the Taft Hartley act after all. Don’t go getting too uppity now.

  • Law Abiding VPN User@feddit.org
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    Don’t do this stupid shit.

    Advocating for violence like this is exactly the kind of shit that all the digital ID assholes and the internet censorship nazis are going to point to for why their way is right.

    the ignorant, elderly old farts that have every seat of every elected position are going to believe those evil people

    stop validating what they believe

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      The most perturbing question for the liberal is the question of violence. The liberal’s initial reaction to violence is to try to convince the oppressed that violence is an incorrect tactic, that violence will not work, that violence never accomplishes anything. The Europeans took America through violence and through violence they established the most powerful country in the world. Through violence they maintain the most powerful country in the world. It is absolutely absurd for one to say that violence never accomplishes anything.

      The way the oppressor tries to stop the oppressed from using violence as a means to attain liberation is to raise ethical or moral questions about violence. I want to state emphatically here that violence in any society is neither moral nor is it ethical. It is neither right nor is it wrong. It is just simply a question of who has the power to legalize violence.

      I used that example only to point out that the oppressor never really puts an ethical or moral judgment on violence, except when the oppressed picks up guns against the oppressor. For the oppressor, violence is simply the expedient thing to do.

      Is it not violent for a child to go to bed hungry in the richest country in the world? I think that is violent. But that type of violence is so institutionalized that it becomes a part of our way of life. Not only do we accept poverty, we even find it normal. And that again is because the oppressor makes his violence a part of the functioning society. But the violence of the oppressed becomes disruptive. It is disruptive to the ruling circles of a given society. And because it is disruptive it is therefore very easy to recognize, and therefore it becomes the target of all those who in fact do not want to change the society. What we want to do for our people, the oppressed, is to begin to legitimatize violence in their minds. So that for us violence against the oppressor will be expedient. This is very important, because we have all been brainwashed into accepting questions of moral judgment when violence is used against the oppressor.

      Excerpts from The Pitfalls of Liberalism, written 1969

      https://redsails.org/the-pitfalls-of-liberalism/

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      10 hours ago

      Battle of Blair Mountain(among others).

      Read your history.

      Learn what rights have been won by violence and those that were won by non violence.

      You will be surprised.

      Stop being ignorant.

    • ☂️-@lemmy.ml
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      “don’t fight corporations because then they would justify fighting back”

      yeah no shit.

    • حمید پیام عباسی@crazypeople.onlineOP
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      Oh fuck off. These pictures are of Blair Mountain, a fight started by the government. The armed people are defending themselves against militarized strike breakers who started the violence.

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          do you think workers got rights by asking nicely?

          if factories didn’t get set on fire with the owner inside people would still be breaking their backs working 16h a day in conditions that shorten their lives by a year every month spent working, every day going deeper in dept to the company store. Oh and they asked for better conditions, they protested, they demanded, they went on strikes, but there was no way out.

          violance isn’t the answer - violance is what happens when you take away someon’s hope. And this is not a new relevation:

          Sun Tzu said ‘When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard’

          because a desperate, hopeless foe will fight to the death

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            Atleast they chose a communist nation founded on the rights of the working class over Russia an ex commhnist country that is now capitalist. So it could get dumber

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            More like: ‘this focus on instigating violence and ignoring all other forms of progress js so idiotic and self sabotaging, it must be foreign propaganda’. But if you insist that you as an individual are just that dumb and self sabotaging then congrats, and keep on enjoying behind the bastards and pretending that it’s actual history’.