Echoes of the Pullman Strike 0
Sam and his crew discuss the new robber barons and their exploitation of workers.
Aside:
Karl Marx was a brilliant economist, but a lousy prophet.
He was wrong about the dictatorship of the proletariat and about the ensuing paradise of “from each according to his abilities and to each according to his needs,”* but he was damned right on the mark about employers exploitating the masses.
The best defense against worker exploitation is not Marxism. It is unions negotiating with employers for fair treatment of employees.
I know. I worked in a union shop.
Oh, for more about the Pullman Strike.
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*I suspect that Marx saw no way out of a capitalist dystopia, so he just made something up out of desperation and despair. But that’s just me.
