I don’t get the supposed reasoning behind that, as in: how are unions creating a “lords and peasants situation”? Who are the lords, who are the peasants?
(Perhaps he’s thinking about the common American implementation, where you have union workers with union privileges, and regular workers without? And then the former would be the lords? Although even union workers don’t rule over their non-union colleagues, I don’t think.)
(Caveat: I don’t really know the Swedish system either, but I doubt he was talking specifically about that.)
He is just projecting. Unions and historically trade and craft guilds have been organized bodies to protect the interests of their members in a hierachical system. Where before the craftsmen were their own businessmen but subjected to feudal order, now the workers are employed to a capitalist.
There is an entire political movement of Neufeudalism, that wants to use Neoliberal ideas of deregulation, dismantling of central governments and contracted slavery to reestablish feudal systems. Just that then the authority would not stem from title inheritance but from wealth inheritance. Subsequently many former feudal families in European countries try to reestablish themselves this way, for instance through political activities in fascist and far-right political movements.
I don’t get the supposed reasoning behind that, as in: how are unions creating a “lords and peasants situation”? Who are the lords, who are the peasants?
(Perhaps he’s thinking about the common American implementation, where you have union workers with union privileges, and regular workers without? And then the former would be the lords? Although even union workers don’t rule over their non-union colleagues, I don’t think.)
(Caveat: I don’t really know the Swedish system either, but I doubt he was talking specifically about that.)
He is just projecting. Unions and historically trade and craft guilds have been organized bodies to protect the interests of their members in a hierachical system. Where before the craftsmen were their own businessmen but subjected to feudal order, now the workers are employed to a capitalist.
There is an entire political movement of Neufeudalism, that wants to use Neoliberal ideas of deregulation, dismantling of central governments and contracted slavery to reestablish feudal systems. Just that then the authority would not stem from title inheritance but from wealth inheritance. Subsequently many former feudal families in European countries try to reestablish themselves this way, for instance through political activities in fascist and far-right political movements.