It's only necessary because hell doesn't exist.
Violence agaist scabs.
To get back to the OP. Violence agaist scabs.
Merits:
- is funny
- if you hurt a scab, it negatively affects productivity, even if they make it in
- makes people be afraid to scab
Drawbacks:
- you might get caught by the police and be in trouble
- scab wages might go up (short term problem)
That's about it.
Rata wrote:
You don't have sense of humor.
Rata, this came up after I mentioned the worst piece of violence I had seen against a scab (somebody having his eye taken out by a coal chisel). It was pretty horrific. I wasn't laughing at the time. We don't condemn workers who commit acts like these, but neither do we glorify in them, or try to turn them into a Tarantino film.
Devrim
The scabbing must have been fairly extreme to deserve being blinded in one eye. The only thing I could imagine that would deserve a reprisal like this was being a proven agent of the bosses. I don't think violence against scabs ever solved anything. If workers can only be persuaded to extend solidarity out of fear, then it's not solidarity at all.
Devrim wrote:
Rata, this came up after I mentioned the worst piece of violence I had seen against a scab (somebody having his eye taken out by a coal chisel). It was pretty horrific. I wasn't laughing at the time. We don't condemn workers who commit acts like these, but neither do we glorify in them, or try to turn them into a Tarantino film.
Nail. Head.
Devrim wrote:
Rata wrote:
You don't have sense of humor.Rata, this came up after I mentioned the worst piece of violence I had seen against a scab (somebody having his eye taken out by a coal chisel). It was pretty horrific. I wasn't laughing at the time. We don't condemn workers who commit acts like these, but neither do we glorify in them, or try to turn them into a Tarantino film.
Well, as we see revolutionary violence as our method of struggle, you could say that we are glorifying beating of scabs. If by glorifying you understand standing by our method. The fact that you witnessed scab being beaten up doesn’t prove that you have sense of humor which was inhibited by the scene, on contrary; it is one more proof that you are lacking it. I saw many nasty things in Serbia in last 15 years, including people being melted by the bombs, but I still can make fun about that, because I do have a sense of humor. Every other approach to the fun in getting scabs beaten up is just petit bourgeoisie moralizing.
Drawbacks and merits please?
[Or Trotskyists even, if you're like that].