Oh God, oh shit, I said I wasn’t going to do it. I said I wasn’t going to start a China struggle session. Already getting flashbacks to the Discord.
But something just doesn’t sit right with me and wanted to get some clarification here…
My question is this: why does China ban labor organizing/unions?
Is this yikes/intentional/actually a good thing?
(Yeah, I do know that labor unions are not always unequivocally good and sometimes they act more like middle management than as representatives of the workers… but democratizing the workplace seems like a no-brainer for any socialist project.)
Thoughts?
People in social media were complaining that some of the actions of community volunteers were going too far. I had a video example from Weibo of one such volunteer harassing another dude just for wearing shorts. Unfortunately, I just checked and it seems that the account associated with it has gone private.
So in other words, there’s no actual institutional opposition to these community organizations.
