GucciMane [none/use name]
I just watched the interview and I have no idea what you’re on about.
It’s a 3 minute interview. Tucker opened up with a question about AOC, to which Smalls responds by truthfully mentioning how AOC abandoned them, while also mentioning that he had “no ill will against her”.
They don’t mention AOC after that, and it was honestly a little awkward after that. Tucker asks Smalls several questions about the union campaign, but again there’s no further mention of AOC or shit talking of any other socdems.
Of course Tucker is going to say bad shit about AOC and he tried getting Smalls to do so in his opening question, but Smalls didn’t really go for it.
Another big gripe is that social-democracy is just capitalism, and we are opposed to capitalism.
but that criticism doesn’t really hold up when you ARE the global south and it’s your resources getting plundered by imperialists
For the same reason, it doesn’t work to materially improve conditions for the 3rd world. The only solution is revolutionary socialism.
Well the PAVN did win the war, but Vietnam was forced to abandon revolutionary society and enter the capitalist dominated world economy of privatization, free trade, debt, commodity/labor export, and resource extraction, so American capitalism did win in the end even if they lost the war. Not to mention the billions made for defense contractors.
Vietnam is a part of 15 Free Trade Agreements (FTAs). This is opening markets like South Korea where, more than seven years after implementing the VKFTA, Vietnam has become the third largest mango supply market for S. Korea, reaching 1.7 thousand tons. This is equal to US$7.4 million.
As a result of the EVFTA that is now in place, Vietnam has also become the largest source of cashew nuts for the EU. In the first 10 months of 2022, Vietnam exported 98.97 thousand tons of cashews to European markets, worth US$699 million. This represents an increase of 9.8 percent over the same period in 2021.
[…] There are, however, a number of government incentives supporting the agricultural sector, as well as FTAs, that, though a challenge in many ways, are also opening up foreign markets to Vietnamese agricultural products.
Src: https://www.vietnam-briefing.com/news/vietnam-agricultural-products.html/
While foreign companies are not allowed to directly own land in Vietnam (they must pay rent) it seems there’s a lot of foreign participation in the agricultural center (cited from the same article):
Three firms that have been relatively successful in the Vietnamese market are Cargill, Olam, and the Louis Dreyfus Company
Now as expected these “free trade” agreements and foreign corps contribute to the exploitation of workers, including children:
The last official survey to assess child labour in Vietnam was undertaken in 2018 with the Second National Child Labour Survey. The survey found that more than 1 million children aged between 5-17 were engaged in child labour and it is estimated that over 50 percent of those children were working in the agricultural, forestry, and fishery sectors
[…] As part of the assessment, we spoke to a range of people involved in the pepper harvest and visited the plantations first-hand. During this trip we met Y.D.A, an 11-year-old boy from an ethnic minority group who was working on the plantations with his parents and had never been to school. In many ways, Y.D.A. became a symbol of the unknown numbers of children in rural Vietnam who too were out of school due to poverty, working and making “invisible” contributions to an international company’s supply chain.
So yeah let’s stop pretending the world situation is still 1976, vietnam is a still imperialised country with a long way to go in the process of national soverignty, anti imperialism, workers’ rights, education, and socialism.
E; Just had a further thought that the Vietnamese victory in their wars of liberation is more comparable to the British leaving India than say, the establishment of USSR
Mf named “cox”
You’re seeing the opinions of the western left, and in our countries our movements have only just been rebounding after decades of very harsh repression and propaganda, so it’ll take more time, struggle, and political development for people to see the difference between social democracy and revolutionary society. It is unfortunate, but for now, many will be captivated by the former.
Pretty sure this means that the workers will no longer be protected by law from losing their jobs. If the union leaders condone the strike, they could go to jail. If the union doesn’t condone the strike, this is a wildcat strike and the firm can sue the union if they don’t expel the workers participating. Furthermore the government/firms will be less likely to engage in negotiations with the union if they go through with an unprotected strike.
If the striking workers are government employees, then there could be further reprisals (in some states it’s illegal for government employees to go on strike, as government employees do not have a legally protected right to strike unlike those working in the private sector).
Basically, you always have a legal right to not go to work or to participate in a strike, but there are “protected” and “unprotected” strikes/union action. Workers who participate in a protected strike have certain legal protections over workers in unprotected strikes. Also, while it isn’t illegal to participate in an unprotected strike, disrupting work or unlawful assembly could land strikers or union leaders in legal trouble.
I got all this through 30 mins of googling so if anyone knows more, or if I’ve said something incorrect, please correct me
- https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2005/12/when-did-strikes-become-illegal.html
- https://www.quora.com/Is-it-true-that-in-the-USA-you-can-be-arrested-for-going-on-strike-to-defend-or-improve-the-conditions-of-your-employment
- https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/9/20/20873867/worker-strike-walkout-stoppage-firing-job
- https://www.lawyers.com/legal-info/labor-employment-law/wage-and-hour-law/when-is-going-on-strike-illegal.html
Strange to think that they, Qanon, and 4chan will probably be in history books.
But yeah people pivot to extremist ideologies (both right and left) as society around them collapses. We are living in 1920’s Germany and Italy rn. The only silver lining is that as much as fascism is growing popular in the US, so too is leftism, to certain extents. People always leave out that the growth of Nazism and fascism was in large part a reaction to the growth of communism and trade unionism.