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Strikes
Pannekoek, Anton
http://www.connexions.org/CxArchive/MIA/pannekoe/1948/strikes.htmhttp://www.marxists.org/archive/pannekoe/1948/strikes.htm Publisher: Western Socialist Year Published: 1948 Resource Type: Article Cx Number: CX10876 State power acquires now an important function in organizing business life. In the devastated Europe it takes the supreme lead; its officials become the directors of a planned economy, regulating production and consumption. Its special function is to keep the workers down, and stifle all discontent by physical or spiritual means. In America, where it is subjected to big business, this is its chief function. The workers have now over against them the united front of State power and capitalist class, which usually is joined by union leaders and party leaders, who aspire to sit in conference with the managers and bosses and having a vote in fixing wages and working conditions. And, by this capitalist mechanism of increasing prices, the standard of life of the workers goes rapidly downward. Subject Headings |