“If you're in your early 20s and you're hanging out with a bunch of other people in their early 20s, nobody has a sense of the kinds of problems that real 'workers' run into every day. They're running into a completely different set of problems like 'what's the party going on right now that I should be going to?” PeopleIfsShouldKindDifferentRealProblemRunningPartyRight NowWorkersBunchHanging OutEarly 20s Author:Aaron Levie
“My whole life so far, my whole experience has been that our failure has been not to love enough. This conviction brought me to a rejection of the radical movement after my early membership in the Socialist Party, the Industrial Workers of the World, and the Communist affiliates I worked with.” WorldHas BeensEnoughWholePartyMovementWorkersConvictionWhole LifeRadicalRejectionCommunistSocialistMembershipSocialist Party Book:On Pilgrimage Source: On Pilgrimage
“When the [US] president writes to Kim Jong Il, the son, the Dear Leader, he doesn't call him Dear Mr President, he calls him Dear Mr Secretary. Have you ever noticed that? Why is that? Because he's not the president of North Korea, he's the head of the Communist Party, the North Korean Workers' Party and he's the head of the Army. He's not head of the state. The head of the state is his father, who's been dead for 15 years.” WritingYearsStatesFatherPresidentPartyLeaderSonArmyWorkersDearCommunistSecretaryKoreaNorth KoreaKoreanKimCommunist PartyUs PresidentNorth Korean Author:Christopher Hitchens
“Because of their historical theory of the "alienation of labor" (that the worker must become less and less in control of the work of his hands) the Marxist parties never fought for the man-worthy job itself.” MenHandsJobsPartyTheoryLaborHistoricalWorkersWorthyAlienationMarxist Book:Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society Source: Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society
“We've got to keep an eye on the battle that we face - a war on workers. And you see it everywhere. It is the Tea Party. And there's only one way to beat and win that war - the one thing about working people is, we like a good fight.” PeopleWayWarEyeFacesFightingWinningPartyOne ThingBattleBeatsWorkersOne WayTeaTea PartyGood Fight Author:James P. Hoffa
“The domination of capitalism globally depends today on the existence of a Chinese Communist party that gives delocalised capitalist enterprises cheap labour to lower prices and deprive workers of the rights of self-organisation.” GivingSelfTodayPartyExistenceRightsDependsCapitalismOrganizationWorkersChineseEnterpriseLabourCommunistCapitalistDominationCommunist Party Author:Jacques Ranciere