After reading this, I really feel for the american capitalists. It is heartwrenching how capitalists are having trouble exploiting workers to their fullest just because the tight labor market puts workers in a better bargaining position. /s
“Modern social democracy reveals its reactionary nature in a concentrated way in its viewpoint and attitude towards man. It regards man as an instrument necessary for material production. Material production is needed for man; man does not exist for the sake of material production. A developed machine, if it does not serve man, is nothing but a worthless scrap of iron. Nevertheless, some people do not hesitate to trample upon the basic rights of man for material production. It is explained by a simple fact that they advocate the use of unemployment as a means of pressure to increase labour intensity. The right to labour is a basic right of man. The “socialism” that deprives the working masses even of their labour right cannot become a humanitarian and democratic socialism.”
Kim Jong-Il, Some Questions of the Ideological Foundation of Socialism (1990)
nooo not my reserve army of laborino nooo
Mf’s when they treat manpower as a disposable resource for decades, and then have the gall to get mad when it “runs out”.
At first I thought, “man isn’t this a bit extreme,” then I saw the context and I was like oh