He also recently released the video with the clickbait thumbnail “don’t join a union”
While I can imagine he makes some good points about the shittiness of Western and especially American unions, you should still join a union even if it is shitty.
My union experience was shitty in many ways and my union fucking sucked. We won marginal gains in a 6 week strike, with union leadership lying (at best misleading) about the tentative agreement. Then those in leadership roles got to flex that they won such a successful huge strike.
But it was also a huge radicalizing experience and started me into a path of left wing politics. This was when i first learned about and felt class solidarity.
It also made me fucking hate Democrats, because at the same time as we were striking was when Biden ratfucked the railroad unions. And our shitty TA was mediated by the establishment Democrat mayor of San Diego.
I think BadEmpanada is very smart and right about most things. He has made some great video essays. I just don’t think he has good tactics for growing a left wing movement, and is blinded by doing what gets the most views. Or, he legitimately holds these strange ultra left ideas and just wants us all to wait out the death of American empire.
He also recently released the video with the clickbait thumbnail “don’t join a union”
While I can imagine he makes some good points about the shittiness of Western and especially American unions, you should still join a union even if it is shitty.
My union experience was shitty in many ways and my union fucking sucked. We won marginal gains in a 6 week strike, with union leadership lying (at best misleading) about the tentative agreement. Then those in leadership roles got to flex that they won such a successful huge strike.
But it was also a huge radicalizing experience and started me into a path of left wing politics. This was when i first learned about and felt class solidarity.
It also made me fucking hate Democrats, because at the same time as we were striking was when Biden ratfucked the railroad unions. And our shitty TA was mediated by the establishment Democrat mayor of San Diego.
I think BadEmpanada is very smart and right about most things. He has made some great video essays. I just don’t think he has good tactics for growing a left wing movement, and is blinded by doing what gets the most views. Or, he legitimately holds these strange ultra left ideas and just wants us all to wait out the death of American empire.
spoilers: he is not