Blacklisting back in fashion

Vaneigemappreci...
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Submitted by Vaneigemappreci... on 8 May, 2008 - 19:12.

Anyone else seen this?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7389547.stm

Sounds as though it could encompass about 99% of the workforce!

anarcho-punk "A burning fire of injustice"
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8 May, 2008 - 19:20

It would certainly encompass all mcDonalds staff, what a thieving bunch of pikeys we are, do you know we are costing mcD's £20000 a week in lost food and stolen money/goods. How good is that? wink

Vaneigemappreci...
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8 May, 2008 - 20:27

Good work anarcho-punk!

I'm sure i once read a bit of a book on business planning which said that employers should consider abesnteeism as theft, because after all your employee is taking his labour away from you, or something along those lines.

Jess "In love with money, but “the course of true love never did run smooth”."
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8 May, 2008 - 20:43

The problem with the people complaining about this 'blacklist' is that they don't have a critique of work. This blacklist will mean that more people are unable to work and therefore participate in capitalism, and will soon discover how much more rewarding living in a squat off food picked out of a bin is.

Sean Siberio
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8 May, 2008 - 21:02

I'm not quite sure, Jess, if you are being serious or tounge in cheek, but I'll take you at face value.

What a load of horse shit. While I am a fan of, and have experienced the dumpster diving, squatting lifestyle, the idea that it represents some sort of profound refusal of capitalist society, as opposed to simply being a parasitic, scavenger lifestyle is ridiculous. Work sucks, no doubt, but the creation of things (which is not, in and of itself WORK), is essential not only to people actually living and getting on, but is what, theoretically we should be all about. Getting hold of the means so we CAN sustain ourselves without having a boss, a time card, and 9-5 workday.

JoeBlack2 "Posting a lot less in 2007"
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8 May, 2008 - 23:12
Sean Siberio wrote:
I'm not quite sure, Jess, if you are being serious or tounge in cheek, but I'll take you at face value.

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I think she just forgot she was in her Jess browser and not in her anarcho-punk one. I guess we should preserve the text for when she realizes her error

Jess wrote:
The problem with the people complaining about this 'blacklist' is that they don't have a critique of work. This blacklist will mean that more people are unable to work and therefore participate in capitalism, and will soon discover how much more rewarding living in a squat off food picked out of a bin is.

tsi
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8 May, 2008 - 23:16

for a second I thought that this was going to be about blacklisting for union organizing, which I can assure you, IS back in fashion.

OliverTwister "Tied directly to Bekken and the Philly camp"
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9 May, 2008 - 09:58
Vaneigemappreciationclub wrote:
Good work anarcho-punk!

I'm sure i once read a bit of a book on business planning which said that employers should consider abesnteeism as theft, because after all your employee is taking his labour away from you, or something along those lines.

I read something recently claiming that websurfing at work was a modern form of theft. So, I think a lot of libcommers are in the vanguard there.

Jack "In it for spite"
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9 May, 2008 - 10:14
JoeBlack2 wrote:
I think she just forgot she was in her Jess browser and not in her anarcho-punk one. I guess we should preserve the text for when she realizes her error

Nah, It's a piss take of what an occasional libcom poster said a few years ago as an attack on a campaign we were doing to save our bus station.

Jess "In love with money, but “the course of true love never did run smooth”."
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9 May, 2008 - 11:19

Jack wins the prize.

Vaneigemapprectionsociety should be blacklisted for stealing my idea for a thread, btw.

Vaneigemappreci...
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9 May, 2008 - 19:48

Its club jess, i'm a club not a society, society is way too bourgeois

anarcho-punk "A burning fire of injustice"
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15 May, 2008 - 11:09

just like philosophy and politics then?