O Intermitente
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quinta-feira, julho 24, 2003

Trade unions: as spurious as rain-makers?

"WHEN anthropologists first studied peoples in semi-arid areas around the world they found most groups had shamans or priests or medicine men who devised rituals to bring down the life-giving rains. There was no more an important task ... nor a more fraudulent one."

"Apart from cricket, perhaps we go without rain-making rituals but we do have tricksters attempting comparable frauds. We call them trade unions"

"(...) They are worse than any tribal rain-makers because they achieve the impoverishment of all working people."
posted by Miguel Noronha 6:00 da tarde