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Bezig met laden... Overcoming Capitalism: Strategy for the Working Class in the 21st Century (editie 2022)door Tom Wetzel (Auteur)
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"Overcoming Capitalism is a book about strategy, particularly how the powerless can get the upper hand. And it's written for everyone—not a specialized, self-selected audience. Tom Wetzel carefully explains how capitalism works and how the structure is stacked against us with an eye toward where power lies and how we can tip the scales. The book is a twenty-first century reworking of the approach to unionism. The United States has a dramatic history of workers organizing on the job. In the last 70-odd years labor organizations have made peace with owners, and wages, various protections, and safety has diminished. All during an era that, despite its ups and downs, has been extremely profitable for the ownership class. Wetzel provides a solution to that failure by showing how a democratic outcome can be built into the method of struggle for social change, giving working people the means to ensure they will end up in control of the labor process and the larger society. But this isn't the old white guy in a hard hat unionism of the previous century. The working class has changed. Life under capitalism has changed. How we think about unionism must also change. While the political and capitalist class wring their hands over the environmental crisis and economic inequality we can see the immediate appeal of a union movement with an expanded mission to wrest control from the wealthy and powerful before they cost-shift us into extinction."--Provided by publisher. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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I often get frustrated at books that describe issues with the way society is organized, but don't offer any kind of way forward. I appreciate that Wetzel took the time to lay out his path towards his utopia. I don't agree with the vast majority of it (I don't think I even necessarily agree with having a "plan") but it's nice that it exists and that other people will probably take inspiration from it. He writes in a very accessible yet thorough way.
Some things I didn't like:
1. He provides answers to arguments that may be presented by people on the right and communists, but doesn't bring up any of the myriad issues an anarchist might have with his proposals.
2. His plan is pretty much capitalism with more people power. I think it would be better for every living thing, but still not ideal.
3. Although AK Press just released this book, it feels like it was written at least three years ago. Wetzel writes about unions and organizing, but doesn't make any mention of Amazon, Starbucks, or any of the most recent, very prevalent examples; he brings up health issues in workplaces without mentioning COVID; and he talks about police oppression and the way people have fought back, but makes no mention of the 2020 George Floyd uprising.
Maybe he finished writing the book in 2019 and it just didn't get published until recently. I don't know (