Manchester Class Struggle Forum #6 - Class Struggle In China (tomorrow!)
Django | 18.08.2010 19:06
The next meeting of the Manchester Class Struggle Forum will take place on the subject of class struggle in China.
Recent years have seen a rise in class conflict in China, as workers in "the sweatshop of the world" become increasingly confident in asserting their demands against an authoritarian state, multinational corporations, and servile trade unions. We will be discussing the implications of these developments, and what lessons we can draw from them for the future.
The meeting will be introduced by a presentation on the subject, before moving to open discussion.
The forum will take place at 7.00pm, on Thursday 19th August at the Friends Meeting House, Mount Street, Manchester
For full details, included recommended reading, see the MCSF blog here:
http://libcom.org/blog/manchester-class-struggle-forum-6-class-struggle-china-11082010#comment-392713
The meeting will be introduced by a presentation on the subject, before moving to open discussion.
The forum will take place at 7.00pm, on Thursday 19th August at the Friends Meeting House, Mount Street, Manchester
For full details, included recommended reading, see the MCSF blog here:
http://libcom.org/blog/manchester-class-struggle-forum-6-class-struggle-china-11082010#comment-392713
Django
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China? Boring!
18.08.2010 20:17
anarcho advice guy
The working-class has country
18.08.2010 22:46
@ anarcho advice guy - I doubt the proletarians of Manchester will be flooding to the meeting, but just because China is far away doesn't make their struggle any less relevant.
anarchosyndicalista
Class enforcement.
19.08.2010 08:27
I don't consider myself to be representative of any class at all, I'm not working or middle class. These are monickers placed on me by other people who want to sanction me and isolate my movements within society.
I belong to no class. Everybody else I know is class monicker dismissive.
Yet anarchists continue to insist that I do. Why is this?
Anarchism isn't fighting against class, it is enforcing it.
T
Can't fight class by ignoring it...
19.08.2010 20:31
I don't consider myself to be representative of any class at all, I'm not working or middle class. These are monickers placed on me by other people who want to sanction me and isolate my movements within society.
I belong to no class. Everybody else I know is class monicker dismissive.
Yet anarchists continue to insist that I do. Why is this?
Anarchism isn't fighting against class, it is enforcing it."
Do you know what anarchists mean by class? It doesn't seem like you do. We live in a class-based society - you can't opt out, and it affects you regardless of whether you think it exists.
Check out libcom.org, they'll give you a pretty good run down of what class is and why you can't just wish it away. Don't post your question in the "libcommunity" section of the forum though, whatever you do.
CSA