"Your union isn't sufficiently committed enough to the anarcho-syndicalist ideal!"And I say this as a fan of Wobblies, organic hemp bars, and food co-ops. But sometimes, these things reach a stage of ridiculousness where satire loses its meaning.
"Is too! Our 100-year history clearly reflects bottom-up organization focused on decentralized, worker-planned militant unionism!"
"Pass the organic hemp bar, man."
"Is is fair trade, or not? I"m not eating it if it's not."
"Apparently, a concern for others is self-love at its least attractive, while greed is now a sign of the highest altruism. But then to reverse, periodically, the meanings of words is a very small price to pay for our vast freedom not only to conform but to consume." Gore Vidal
Wednesday, July 12, 2006
Where the silliness of intra-union squabbles eventually leads you.
Apparently the wobblies just weren't proletarian enough for this guy (who has a job at a food co-op, mind you) so he started his own union. Man, I can just hear the break-room banter now:
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