excerpts: I think this is what the modern political left misses. The left is in a political struggle, which requires real-world changes and not just prevarication on why it's unfortunate that the...
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The incoming first female head of Germany’s most powerful labor union IG Metall is warning Elon Musk about efforts to avoid unionization at his Tesla Inc. factory near Berlin.
“You need to be careful. The rules of the game are different here,” said Christiane Benner, who is set to take the helm of the union on Monday at its general assembly in Frankfurt.
Benner, 55, argues that German politicians have been too slow in tackling the country’s structural issues, putting at risk workers in industries like auto production, which employs roughly 800,000 people.
A growing number of auto-industry workers in and outside of Germany are demanding better pay and job security in the shift to electric vehicles. The United Auto Workers union has launched a major strike targeting General Motors, Ford and Stellantis in the US, halting output at several factories. The concern is that EVs, which require fewer moving parts and workers to make, will cost jobs and reduce wages.
“People need confidence. They need a plan and they need to see strategies. They need strong unions,” Benner said. “We see it as our role to push back against this political fragmentation and polarization.”
I think this is what the modern political left misses. The left is in a political struggle, which requires real-world changes and not just prevarication on why it's unfortunate that the right has so much political power. Left wing movements generally win when they promise to do things that people want (e.g. reduced inequality, green economies, proper infrastructure) and continue to win when they actually deliver on these promises. Of course there is a tension here between job security and decarbonisation. Biden's green corps (sorry can't remember the actual name, but it's a government program to give people skills relevant to decarbonisation modelled on Roosevelt's program as part of the New Deal) seems to be to be a good idea in this regards.
I am firmly in that pushing for less change but change that we are more likely to see is better than pushing for more radical change that we are less likely to see. Of course the latter can be useful in pushing for the former (as it can push people to view the "less change" as a nice, sensible moderate option compared to "radical other thing"). Even though the right advocates it, there is some truth in the right-wing claim that too many people on the modern left are interested in ideas themselves rather than executing some of these ideas.
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I think this is what the modern political left misses. The left is in a political struggle, which requires real-world changes and not just prevarication on why it's unfortunate that the right has so much political power. Left wing movements generally win when they promise to do things that people want (e.g. reduced inequality, green economies, proper infrastructure) and continue to win when they actually deliver on these promises. Of course there is a tension here between job security and decarbonisation. Biden's green corps (sorry can't remember the actual name, but it's a government program to give people skills relevant to decarbonisation modelled on Roosevelt's program as part of the New Deal) seems to be to be a good idea in this regards.
I am firmly in that pushing for less change but change that we are more likely to see is better than pushing for more radical change that we are less likely to see. Of course the latter can be useful in pushing for the former (as it can push people to view the "less change" as a nice, sensible moderate option compared to "radical other thing"). Even though the right advocates it, there is some truth in the right-wing claim that too many people on the modern left are interested in ideas themselves rather than executing some of these ideas.