I am unsure when or how a connection between the two formed but both anti-labor conservatives and tankies claim that unions are a stepping stone to communism. I don’t believe that unionization and communism are mutually inclusive.

  • Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    10 months ago

    Yep! Unions are a way to regulate the worst evils of capitalism. This is best argued by Marx’s Das Kapital.

    Unions are also a way to democratize the workplace, and this increase in democracy past voting in general elections goes by the political theory name: Social Democracy.

    A union is essentially a representative tool so that workers can negotiate with their boss without fear.

    Now socialism and communism is when you remake society into being classless and stateless. Unions sieze the means of production from bosses and completely redistribute their wealth. No one can be born rich and lord over the working class.

    Some leftists believe if you step to the left you can keep stepling left and eventually achieve the goals prescribed by leftist theorists. More realistically, in our lifetimes, I hope I get paid enough to live without so much stress.

    And tankies, who tend to simp for the USSR, are a bit confused. In america if you dont show up to work you can be fired immediately. With unions, you aren’t fired immediately. In the USSR, you are sent to the gulag. So be aware, that shit is not the true goal of communism or any leftist action.