Brazilian Oil Workers Refuse to Replace Stiking Venezuelans

El Mercurio (Santiago) ^ | 04 January 2003 | EFE

[Tailgunner Joe]

They wouldn't be strikebreakers, they'd be scabs.

Chavez exposes how Marxists think of the workers. They think of them as slaves.

Marxism is slavery.

[Tailgunner Joe]

Are white collar workers not of the working class?

I guess not, if you are a stinking commie who wants to exterminate the middle class.

Are public sector workers not the working class?

Under Communism, all workers are "public sector" workers and all are equally poor and enslaved.

[aruanan]

the CUT is very closely tied to lula's worker's party. lots of his ministers are from the CUT. don't know if the ideological differences that you think exist actually do exist.

I don't know their reasons for doing what they're doing; I'm just commenting on the ironic effect.

[Tailgunner Joe]

If Chavez has his way, the oil workers will be joining his precious plebians in their shanty towns. So will every other businessman or middle-class worker of any kind.

Socialism cannot produce anything. It can only steal and destroy. Socialist thieves never spread the wealth. They only spread the misery and starvation.

[Tailgunner Joe]

Strikers are employees who refuse to work.

Communists are slavemasters who force people to work.

Any questions?

[chilepepper]

Marxism is slavery

Unless one is a member of the Marxist Elite in which case one gets pretty good grub, cars, lodging and perks, and gets to impose their intellectual brilliance on an ignorant (but oh so willing) proletariat who need to be formed and led into becoming progressive socialist citizens...

[Tailgunner Joe]

He won't. He has been trying to break the strike with violence. This exposes the communist lie that he is on the side of the workers.

The Brazilian workers won't come to his assistance because they're not slaves anymore than the Venezuelans are, despite the aspirations of the Castro disciples of both nations.

The Venezuelans won't tolerate Chavez anymore because they're not interested in being relieved of the burden of their lives, liberty and property.

Hiring scabs isn't communist. Redistribution of wealth is communist.

[BlackJack]

Thats what I understood, Algerians were going to help out.
I don't think Venezuelan workers are going to like any
imported "scabs".

[Antoninus]

Wow. Not only is this bad for Chavez, it sends Lula a message, too.

I'm pretty sure Lula already got the message in advance. He took the middle road. He suggested a solution to appeal to his leftist Chavez-loving supporters, but now can sit back and do nothing, claiming his hands are tied by the Brazilian oil workers union.

Chavez is a low-brow lunatic. I'm fairly certain Lula--who strikes me as more of a marxist technocrat--wants little to do with him.

[Eva]

The problem is that the "people" don't trust the free market system because to them that means that all the wealth goes to the same corrupt gov't leaders and the already rich elite. The "people" have seen no benefit from the oil. Trickly down economics doesn't work in a third world country, with a fascist in control.

[chilepepper]

last time he fired on demonstrators in big way he was deposed by elements of the Army, unfortunately only for a couple of days.

Chavez has been avoiding the bloodshed for selfish reasons, not because of his humanitarianism...

[Teacher317]

Trickly down economics doesn't work in a third world country, with a fascist in control.

Good point. This, of course, means that they have to get rid of the fascist leaders, not the free market system (by electing devout communists).

Unfortunately, as most thrid-world nations do, they make the wrong choice on this question. (I never would have though of Venezuela as third-world before this, but they'll be there soon enough. What is it with oil-rich nations going to communists or dictators, anyway?? Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Russia, Venezuela, Nigeria... Mexico is the only top producer who isn't, and they're the only one I'd consider beng close to third world.)

[SauronOfMordor]

The "poor" become a burden on the rest of society, and are the first to be eliminated as "useless eaters."

No, they become "law enforcement" in the Brave New World.

To stay in power, a tyrant needs a "thug class" to keep him there, and to keep the productive middle class in line. The thug class needs to enjoy violence and cruelty, to have no family or friends in the middle class, and to have long-term resentment of the middle class (so as to feel no sympathy for them when he has to go in and bust heads).

The inner cities are the breeding ground for the new "thug class"