Workers of the world, unite!

[tactful]

The Masses should get together and built a Tower to the sky.
When the fifth gets here I'll celebrate.

 

[KingOrfeo]

Most scientists don't do their jobs because they're expecting a Nobel, they do it because they want to know stuff.

Wrongamundo.

There are only three Nobels in hard sciences (four if you count economics) awarded every year. Every scientist knows how slim his chances are. More to the point, every scientist knows how rare a thing is the "famous scientist," let alone the "rich and powerful scientist." Scientists do hope for fame and esteem -- among their colleagues in their field; no more than that. Most people would not understand what they are famous for anyway.

 

[islandman]

No, voters tell the administrators what to do. That's what Marx proposed, Plato too, to a certain extent.

Once again, by what mechanism do administrators achieve the masses' goals? "The common good" only works up to a point and on paper.

 

[KingOrfeo]

Actually, a collective voting on what's for the good of the community is more possible now than it ever has been. Instantaneous communication pretty much does away with the need for an elected assembly.

An assembly is structured as a deliberative body; the mass of the general public is not. E.g., if you do things by ballot initiative the people might well approve a major spending program and a major tax cut on the same ballot, just because both look like Good Things. (That often happens in California, I understand.) If a legislature tried to do both in the same session -- it might, but not without somebody at some point standing up and saying, "Hey, waitaminnit!"

 

[Sean]

Once again, by what mechanism do administrators achieve the masses' goals? "The common good" only works up to a point and on paper.

People will still have jobs. Someone needs to empty the bins, dig the roads and perform brain surgery.

 

[Byron In Exile]

http://i115.photobucket.com/albums/n307/byroninexile/et/workers.gif

 

[pink]

This worker is off to work. Don't miss me too much.

 

[rosco rathbone]

Happy Mayday, Sean.

 

[KingOrfeo]

And here's some classics from good ol' Skip Williamson . . .

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lo9z8aaj9l1qzhoqfo1_1280.jpg

http://th00.deviantart.net/fs71/PRE/i/2012/127/f/9/class_war_comix_by_unrepentantpighead-d4yvmzj.jpg

 

[MatthewVett]

Happy May Day! And I'm stuck laboring like a sucker. Time to seize some means of production...

 

[Squibbs]

I saw Billy Bragg in Vancouver about 20 years ago.

Meh...

Also, shut up Cade!

 

[eyer]

Your pal Putin is fully with you on this one...

Russia's Putin restores Stalin-era labor award

ST PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin likes to deny that he is taking Russia back to the USSR, but on Wednesday he dusted off another communist relic by restoring a labor medal introduced under Josef Stalin.

A week after telling the nation there was nothing in Russia that smacked of the late Soviet dictator, Putin pinned the Hero of Labour award on five recipients in St Petersburg, the cradle of the 1917 revolution that swept communists to power.

The name has changed slightly from Stalin's Hero of Socialist Labour, which rewarded outstanding work for the Soviet nation. But the award is clearly back, more than two decades after it seemed to have died with the Soviet Union.

Putin has made no secret of his attempt to appeal to the conservative values and patriotism of the working class, his main power base, and counter the threat of the mainly middle-class demonstrators who led protests against him last year.

"The Hero of Labour title is ... a step towards resuming the continuity of traditions, tighter ties between eras and generations," Putin told a ceremony on May Day, the traditional workers' holiday and an important date in the Soviet calendar.

"We need to cherish our historical memory, keep in our hearts our pride for the people that built a great country."

- full piece @

http://news.yahoo.com/russias-putin-restores-stalin-era-labor-award-134336653.html

You should move to that "great country" and strive earnestly to earn an award you'd obviously covet...

...and while doing so, report back to us here on the GB exactly how "great" that "country" under your statist pal Putin is today.

And extra benefit might be the vodka toasts you two could salute each other with...

...acknowledging the little-man syndrome you have in common.

 

[Sean]

Bump for my fellow strugglers against the evils of capitalism.