Once again tapping the sign that reads “the alternative to collective bargaining is dragging out the factory owner from his house and beating him to death in front of his family,” because that’s what we had before collective bargaining
Unions are there for your protection too, management
Capitalism itself was a workers revolution, right? Serfs rebelling against aristocracy
No
No, it was a transfer of power from landed nobility to the mercantile class. There was no revolution except in France, but that was not a capitalist revolution. It was a republican revolution triggered by the excesses of the crown. Ironically one of those excesses was funding the American revolution
No, oh gods no, not at all, that’s a myth perpetrated by capitalists, it was a tool of aristocracy and their adjacent classes (merchants, trades guilds), there has never been a peasants revolt for the sake of capitalism, they were almost always due to climate impacting food or oppressive taxation.
