return2ozma@lemmy.world to Political Memes@lemmy.world · 2 months agoLabor Day reminder: Cops aren't workers. Police associations aren't unions.lemmy.worldimagemessage-square27fedilinkarrow-up1316arrow-down137
arrow-up1279arrow-down1imageLabor Day reminder: Cops aren't workers. Police associations aren't unions.lemmy.worldreturn2ozma@lemmy.world to Political Memes@lemmy.world · 2 months agomessage-square27fedilink
minus-squareThrowawayPermanentelinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·2 months agoThe state is a power structure. I don’t become a corporation when I get a job at McDonalds.
minus-squarejerkface@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-22 months agoSo you understand how labour and management are not the same thing, right? Police have the authority of the state. They literally rule us. That is not labour. Labour is the class that produces value. Police don’t produce value, they implement the will of the state by doing violence against citizen of that same state. Labour theory is just not meaningful when applied to the police.
The state is a power structure. I don’t become a corporation when I get a job at McDonalds.
So you understand how labour and management are not the same thing, right? Police have the authority of the state. They literally rule us. That is not labour.
Labour is the class that produces value. Police don’t produce value, they implement the will of the state by doing violence against citizen of that same state. Labour theory is just not meaningful when applied to the police.