Re: appearance and essence of global class conflict

Alan Spector wrote 03 April 2002:
"The Marxist sense sees appearance and essence as a unity of opposites,
where each defines the other." and you gave an example.

GK: An additional example comes to mind. A while ago some teenagers in
Toronto/Canada wanted to organize a labour union at a McDonald's
restaurant ('hamburger joint"). (No success.) Even though the conflict
appeared to be local, we all know that McDonald's is a global
corporation. Thus the local teenagers were actually in a global class
conflict and were confronting the global union-busting policy of that
global corporation. The global component of that local struggle may be
hidden, but is of the essence.





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