Labor unions, revolutionary or not?

[[Insert clever name here]]

Hello all, my first post in here. Had a question and wanted to get your guys two cents on it.

As I understand it, the ruling class in the US is capitalist. There interests are directly opposite to that of the working class'.

Every piece of legislation that bourgeois politicians put out represents an attack on the working class.

There are laws that are outright oppressive plain and simple. Those are easy to spot. And then there are those that pose themselves as progressive. These are the trickier ones that tend to be a bigger problem when dealing with people. In a way these are worse than the outright oppressive laws because they grey up the area between the oppressors and the oppressed.

Its kinda like what my friend would tell me sometimes, "the worst kind if boss is the nice boss." He probably got that from somewhere, but I'm too lazy to look up who actually said it.

If your boss is nice to you and you are buying it, then the boss is moving your attention away from the fact that you are be exploited and directs your attention to being polite.

With that being said, any piece of legislation that bourgeois politicians put out, no matter how progressive they may appear to be, are oppressive in the big picture; they are all attacks on the working class.

With that that last part being said, the fact that the ruling class allows labor unions to exist makes me question their validity at this point.

What's your guy's perspective on unions?

Any comments, questions, or fits of rage are welcomed.

[tuwix]

The unions are organization of workers against employer. They try to defend workers against abuse of employer that come from his advantage that come from what he has. As Marx said, wage labour is paid slavery. The the unions is the organization of slaves against it's owner.

That's all in theory. But we mustn't forget that when there are money there is almost nothing resistant for corruption. And the unions sometimes are corrupted too.

[RedWorker]

Reforms are not drafted up by nice politicians behind their desks. They are exerted by the power of the working class. And these reforms are what paves up the way to the revolution.