Exactly. So the strikes were reactionary. So the ruling class put them down.
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How can communism deal with worker strike?
Bentley Robinson
Aaron Russell
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Joseph Lee
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Isaiah Gomez
Elijah Murphy
If the demands are reasonable then it should be easy to come to a concession. If the demands are unreasonable, and the sector failing puts everybody in jeopardy, then it will be less about the government as an entity breaking the strike and more about every other sector that also has a say in the government, and who also has a vested interest in not starving, breaking the strike out of their own self-interest. The dynamic of people exercising their own will and acting together in their collective material interest doesn't disappear in socialism, demand and pressure still exist. Industry doesn't exist in a vacuum, especially in socialism. Just like society both sets and demands a certain social standard be kept (We agree cannibalism, necrophilia, indecent behavior, etc. should be illegal), society as a whole can also demand, as a reality of power and not ideal circumstances, that industries and necessary work be kept operational to prevent collective starvation or a significant reduction in quality of life. Sometimes difficult decisions must be made and made without consensus, especially in war time, but the decision to not starve is generally one shared by many. Pressure and power does not disappear in socialism.
Oliver Jackson
The only reasons to strike in communism would be related to working conditions or counterrevolution. Since everyone is paid the same or similar wages, and gets the same healthcare and benefits, those are off the bargaining table. If it's working conditions, the DOTP will quickly fix it, probably even before the strike begins. So in many cases, a strike would be genuinely counterrevolutionary.
Jose White
That's… not how socialism works user.
Alexander Rivera
Many. Maybe it's the best way to bring government attention to a social problem, or ask for better working conditions, Be aware that work conditions is on a line of increase of quality that basically have no roof. Everyone in every job will always complain about working conditions, from the guy who is working in a metal industry under health danger, to the writting designer that works on a video game studio that looks like an adult day care 3 hours a day 5 days a week. or maybe even as means to show discontent with their administrators.
Means of production under the control of the workers in socialism is nothing but a judicial fiction. The reality is that it belongs to the government and is being directly administrated by representatives of the state, that regulates work hours, functions, shifts, management, and if it isn't a competence of people in higher positions then him, the compensation. The workers are still under the orders of this administration representative, if they weren't mostly would just show up once at every two weeks, manufacture something just for his family group, and then leave straight away.
To the point of view of the worker, he is under the commands of some authority, and under this authority there will ALWAYS be something to complain about. Work hours, shifts, compensation that doesn't equal to the ammount of effort, and so on.
Now we are getting somewhere! Hopefully the current industry owners listen to these great ideas!
Sebastian Martinez
Best archived thread about strikes in the DotP
8ch.net
Nicholas Bailey
Again, socialism doesn't exist in a vacuum. To strike with unreasonable demands would mean having to contend with the pressure put upon you by the rest of society who requires you to do it for their OWN well-being. The workers in one industry aren't the only workers in society. When production is put into the hands of the workers, it also means the ability enact standards and enforce rules which ensure a certain level of production is kept for the common benefit, in the same way we enact standards now for social behavior which are enforced. In this way a sort of "socialist social contract" is formed to ensure a necessary production, not by ideal but by as a reality of conditions.