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International Labour Organization finally faces reality : Comments

By Ken Phillips, published 29/9/2006

For the first time, the peak body of world-wide labour regulators accepted that labour regulations should not interfere in commercial transactions.

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I agree with turnleft turnright when he says “extreme free market ideology is just as flawed as communist practices when taken to extreme.”

The Capitalist and Communist systems are basically taken over by elite groups who seek to take a bigger share for themselves than they give the other people in their societies. The communist revolutionaries promise the people freedom from poverty whilst using them to win the revolution, then set themselves and their comrades up with the best of everything and the people are still as poor as ever.

The groups in capitalist societies who gain positions of power either political or big business power do exactly the same thing by making sure they set the rules and regulations to make sure that they maintain their power and financial gain over the rest of society.

This is basic human instinct to try and gain the biggest share of territorial wealth (the lion’s share) so to speak. The one saving grace for the people in Capitalists societies is that we have the vote and so to some extent the politicians must appear to be acting in our interests. But they often only pay lip service to assuage our suspicions whilst granting themselves big superannuations payouts.

The boys in the boardrooms in big business and global companies are just as bad. They have never minded using a bit of slave labour in third world countries. Paying them a pittance instead of what their labour is really worth. Oh but I forgot they are really helping these people aren’t they.

Contract labour is just one more of their rules and regulations set in place to favour them financially.

It was only about a hundred years ago that Grandaddy Rockafellow in America turned the guns on his workers for going on strike when he refused to give them more money to feed their families. Eleven workers were shot down that day. But we’re not like that any more are we? HUMAN NATURE DOESN’T CHANGE.

What the bosses are saying to the workers is we are not like that any more “trust us.’
Posted by sharkfin, Sunday, 1 October 2006 12:41:33 AM
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Indeed and Bravo sharkn.

To be fair to both sides of the debate, and to give it an academic focus, lets give the antagonists -the Communist-Capitalists- a terminology.

Lets term it 'Commy-Capitalism'.

That way we can attach a term to the apparatchicks/enforcers:

Lets call them Economic hardliners a name they deserve:

Lets call then 'Econo-Fascists'.

There, now ive done it. Ive opened up you eyes!

Da Da.
Posted by Gadget, Sunday, 1 October 2006 2:31:29 PM
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