Re: Factory work was easier

[m-14970@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Hugh Rodwell)]

Jon F writes:

>  Yup, my job, despite inside brake shoes, is easier than Mr. Thibeault's.
>This bottom rung of the middle management layer is really getting whacked. To
>my mind, this development will be an important element in the growing crisis
>of consensus for the ruling class.
>
>  They have depended on this middle management layer to be a transmission belt
>for ruling class ideology. Now they are throwing them overboard by the gross
>while working those who are left to death. This leaves the billionaires at the
>top more isolated and exposed.
>
>  We should remember though, that as bitter and radicalized as some of these
>people can become, their politics can cut both ways. After all, they are
>supervising lots of demoralized $6 and $7 dollar an hour workers, who
>basically don't give a shit whether Bulldung Bagels makes it quota this week.
>Proletarians in these circumstances don't exactly appear like the bolsheviks
>storming the Winter Palace. So a lot of managers regard them as slacking
>theives, just a cut above RM's cockroaches.
>
> In the absence of a powerful working class leadership, these stressed out
>managers will be prime meat for fascism.


1) Why "middle" management? If this is "middle management" what the hell is
"lower" management? The girl on the till?

2) Jon's warning is absolutely in place. Whose side do these people think
they're on? Who's giving them hell and making their lives miserable?

3) Buffer groups like these -- all in-between supervisory groups -- need "a
powerful working class leadership" to point them in the right direction. So
where's that lead going to come from? Who's going to organize the workers,
and how?


Cheers,

Hugh




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