My god this nails it: “We live in a world where authoritarian populist leaders act as intermediaries between “the oligarchical elites” and the people, carrying out the interests of these elites while pretending to serve the people with “paternalism”. Fab definition Godfrey. I love it. It’s the issue of the ages. Capital wants to reduce the cost of labour to increase profits and populist leaders are their obedient, facilitatory, lapdogs. Same in the corporate world. The multi-million dollar remuneration to senior executives isn’t for ability, it’s for compliance.
Oh, and you’re not radical Godfrey, the ones who are covering up their planetary digressions are the radical ones. I mean opening new coal mines….seriously….? I’m a WA boy. I was reading Tim Winton’s comments on his recent diving at Ningaloo. He said, “As soon as I entered the water I knew something was wrong.” The water was that warm. 60,000 year old aboriginal art in the Burrup Peninsular damaged by LNG extraction. All good. What’s it going to take? Rhetorical.
Tim has crammed Juice full of absolute ‘pearlers’. It’s a target rich environment Godfrey. I read Michael Moore’s Substack bio the other day. He thinks we’ve got 8 years left before the earth wipes its hands of humans. He’s giving Tim a dystopian drag race. I’m starting to feel like a a screaming optimist.
Freire would get on well with Henry George who wrote ‘Progress and Poverty’ in 1879. Seems we’ve gone from the Gilded Age’ to the ‘Tech Bro’ age. Capital is winning. Oh well, fingers crossed Godley. We write, we fight.
Please keep developing this. Working out how exploitation works lays the strongest foundation for your point about “universality”. Then there is the interdependence of the exploitation of people and nature. In the 1970s the BLFs green bans was informed by an ecological socialism, worked out in the old CPA and associates, but was attacked by the union movement itself when it was made vulnerable by property developers, including elements of the “left”. Around then, there was “Environmentalists for Full Employment” - EFFE. More recently, and influentially, there is the Trade Unions for Energy Democracy. TUED is a growing and influential organisation in many other countries, including developing countries. Despite its necessity, it has not yet developed in Australia.
Yeah there’s a few from a range of different perspectives re labour movement history. Let me think on that and come back to you! As far as the right intersection of the labour movement and climate, I can’t recommend this paper enough: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4709316
My god this nails it: “We live in a world where authoritarian populist leaders act as intermediaries between “the oligarchical elites” and the people, carrying out the interests of these elites while pretending to serve the people with “paternalism”. Fab definition Godfrey. I love it. It’s the issue of the ages. Capital wants to reduce the cost of labour to increase profits and populist leaders are their obedient, facilitatory, lapdogs. Same in the corporate world. The multi-million dollar remuneration to senior executives isn’t for ability, it’s for compliance.
Much appreciated. It was reading Freire’s work from 1970 Brazil that inspired this.
Oh, and you’re not radical Godfrey, the ones who are covering up their planetary digressions are the radical ones. I mean opening new coal mines….seriously….? I’m a WA boy. I was reading Tim Winton’s comments on his recent diving at Ningaloo. He said, “As soon as I entered the water I knew something was wrong.” The water was that warm. 60,000 year old aboriginal art in the Burrup Peninsular damaged by LNG extraction. All good. What’s it going to take? Rhetorical.
One of my upcoming posts will start with a quote from Juice!
Tim has crammed Juice full of absolute ‘pearlers’. It’s a target rich environment Godfrey. I read Michael Moore’s Substack bio the other day. He thinks we’ve got 8 years left before the earth wipes its hands of humans. He’s giving Tim a dystopian drag race. I’m starting to feel like a a screaming optimist.
Freire would get on well with Henry George who wrote ‘Progress and Poverty’ in 1879. Seems we’ve gone from the Gilded Age’ to the ‘Tech Bro’ age. Capital is winning. Oh well, fingers crossed Godley. We write, we fight.
Capital needs to keep winning, we the people only need to win once.
And the cinders of inequality are warming up…
Please keep developing this. Working out how exploitation works lays the strongest foundation for your point about “universality”. Then there is the interdependence of the exploitation of people and nature. In the 1970s the BLFs green bans was informed by an ecological socialism, worked out in the old CPA and associates, but was attacked by the union movement itself when it was made vulnerable by property developers, including elements of the “left”. Around then, there was “Environmentalists for Full Employment” - EFFE. More recently, and influentially, there is the Trade Unions for Energy Democracy. TUED is a growing and influential organisation in many other countries, including developing countries. Despite its necessity, it has not yet developed in Australia.
This was a great piece. I especially appreciate bits about the history of the labour movement because I'm not across that much at all.
Are there any books, articles, people etc you'd recommend about that? Also, anyone on the intersection of the labour movement and climate?
Yeah there’s a few from a range of different perspectives re labour movement history. Let me think on that and come back to you! As far as the right intersection of the labour movement and climate, I can’t recommend this paper enough: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4709316
Oh wow that looks awesome. Thank you!!
As I mentioned separately, the best starting point on unions and the climate crisis is Trade Unions for Energy Democracy.