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Articles 2004.Fall Dissent Dorothee Benz Sisyphus and the State |
Sites AFL-CIO Voice @ Work New Labor Forum xxx xxx |
If you believe fascism doesn't exist in the United States, think about informing your boss you have persuaded a group of people at your firm into joining or starting a "Union." We do not fear remote and unlikely challenges; we fear immediate and real threats. We fear the term fascism because it exists very close to the surface of America's skin on the subject of worker organization. We are wise to be afraid. We are unwise to ignore the subject. Corporatism, or corporate fascism, is the American form of this disease. It has thrived here unchallenged for several decades. This is stunning in a country that encourages virtually every other form of civic organization. This situation is unusual for a democratic society and speaks to the virulence of this condition. America is the only industrialized nation without a credible labor party. The notion of organized Labor is so discredited in America that even workers fight organized labor. Labor and Labor Unions are so disenfranchised that even the Democratic Party quietly ignores labor issues. The Democrats' failure in recent years to fight the endless rounds of Republican and Corporatist tax cuts represents a betrayal of the middle class and labor. Ironically, for a nation that vigorously claims moral underpinnings, the despised Union is just a group of people, a formation God himself has already blessed. We are now a country that gives lip service to protecting our children, our women, our land, our Constitution, and our workers. We put Corporatists first. How often must God warn us against putting property before real people? In America, corporations have more rights than real people. Corporations are not only persons in law, they also have the right and the encouragement of society and government to organize. ehj2 see Corporate Fascism |

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