Archive for September 4th, 2012
Big brother, house 2 and Marxism
Posted by John, September 4th, 2012 - under Marxism.
Tags: Big brother
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House 2 is the ‘other’ house with the ‘other’ contestants. It is the dialectic of big brother; House 2 as the negation of house 1 is in fact the negation of itself. The false consciousness of housemates in house 1 is that the totality of life includes an inanimate object, a reified creation of imagination, […]
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Grocon: will it be pigs and wigs or workers and hard hats who win?
Posted by John, September 4th, 2012 - under Strikes.
Tags: Building industry, Building unions, Building workers, CFMEU, Clarrie O'Shea, Class struggle, Grocon
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If Grocon wins it will be a setback for all workers. That’s why it is important for building workers to fight back in the way that has the greatest chance of success – striking and shutting down the building industry and cutting off the flow of massive profits to bludgers like Grollo and his ilk, and in doing that calling on other workers to join them to bury Labor’s anti-worker Fair Work Act.
The world according to Gina Rinehart
Posted by John, September 4th, 2012 - under Rich, Rich maggots, Socialist Alternative, The rich.
Tags: Gina Rinehart
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Australia’s richest person reckons that wages are too high, business taxes are too high, environmental regulations are stifling progress, there is an entrenched culture of entitlement and we socialise too much. In fact Australia is, according to Gina Rinehart, pretty much in the grip of socialism.
You couldn’t really make this stuff up – but she has, writes Ben Hillier in Socialist Alternative.