The Labor Day is a first-class opportunity to talk about class struggle.
On the one hand, there is a common perception that the working class is something unified and includes all those who, since they don’t have any means of production, are forced to work for a wage, thus falling victim to the exploitation of the capitalist who harvest the surplus value of their labor.
On the other hand, class struggle is understood differently: as a struggle between all those who produce value, and those who want to stand in the way of their activity or live non-productively from it.
Who was the class rival to the recent Uber driver in Greece? The unemployed who are currently seeking employment with a decent salary? The underemployed? Those who unnecessarily get entangled in bureaucratic nets?
Read more in Sheldon Richman’s article Class Struggle Rightly Conceived which was published in Greek on the liberal.gr website, in collaboration with KEFiM, and have a happy Labor Day!
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