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Wendy's is being boycotted and picketed by comrades at the Socialist Party. Why? Being a profit-oriented kkkapitalist enterprise is always a good reason. In the Glorious Progressive World of Next Tuesday, when all food is manufactured and distributed equally by the State, things will be different. But until then, a comrade can dream.

This is what I saw in my dream, which is pretty much equal to all my dreams. I was at Wendy's.

Before I ordered my Frosty, I felt compelled to say, "First let me be clear - I deplore any form of supremacist view..."

This is how every conversation must start in the World of Next Tuesday.

However, you may choose an alternatively acceptable path and say, "I am a Communist/Socialist and support all forms of income redistribution... I'll have a Dave's Triple and a Chili Cheese Fry."

You will be served with full acceptance and a comrade in the line with most money will pay for your meal. Unless you are a policeman. No, wait, that's today's reality. In the World of Next Tuesday, People's Police will be enforcing income redistribution and arrest those with most money who refuse to pay for my meals at Wendy's.

People's Policepersons will also have free meals, and so will their supervisors. And their watchers. And those who watch the watchers. And so on. And the food distribution worker-person behind the counter will only smile and say, "Would you like a copy of Mao's Little Red Book with that?"

Since it's been reported that the protester run down and murdered in Charlottesville was a member of the I.W.W., maybe a copy of Wobbly Boy might be more appropriate. After all, Woody Guthrie was a member of the IWW - so it seems particularly apropos. How about a sing along?

I wouldn't be surprised if, as a I.W.W. member, she imagined the capitalist society to be structured according to this poster (first published in 1911 by a US-based Industrial Workers of the World - IWW or the Wobblies). The money bags at the very top represent Trump.

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From my book, Shakedown Socialism:

A False Image of Capitalism Doesn't Survive the Test of Time

Note how archaic and foolhardy these notions appear today in free-market economies, where common workers have access to more and better goods and services than those at the top of the pyramid at the time.

The depicted rigid social structure and lack of upward mobility belong, not to capitalism, but rather to an aristocratic feudal society. ... This drawing may have reflected a time in European history when the elements of capitalism were gradually penetrating the old feudal system and transforming it from within. Today it's the socialist elements that are penetrating and transforming the capitalist system, bringing back the same pyramid they purportedly want to destroy.

But can such a pyramid exist today? Yes it can! With minor adjustments it is a fair representation of life in the socialist "people's republics" of Cuba, North Korea, and all those nations that rejected capitalism as an economic model.

SOCIALIST PARTY OF MICHIGAN:

Picket Wendy's In Support Of Farmworkers' Human Rights, July 23, 2017 In East Lansing

When: Sunday, July, 23 2017, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Where:Wendy's - 1000 Trowbridge Rd, East Lansing, MI 48823 (map)

In conjunction with the Socialist Party USA's Labor & Living Wage Campaign, the Socialist Party of Michigan will be conducting an hour-length informational picket in front of the East Lansing Wendy's restaurant to demand that Wendy's join the Coalition of Immokalee Workers' (CIW) Fair Food Program, which provides worker-led oversight of wages and working conditions for the thousands of tomato pickers supplying the fast food industry. All supporters of farmworkers' human rights are welcome and encouraged to come out and join us for this action!

And here is https://www.boycott-wendys.org/

Actually, I was just wanting a Frosty and felt the need to clarify my good standing as an inclusive Citizen of the World© as opposed to those Trump people who want to rain on the People's Parade. And then I thought . . . "Hmmmmm, how nice it would be if every business offered the Truth ™ according to Mao, Marx, Lenin, Obama et. al." I could have as easily been a hankering for a Big Mac and have been served by an oppressed member of the underpaid burger flipping masses.

Red Square wrote:
The depicted rigid social structure and lack of upward mobility belong, not to capitalism, but rather to an aristocratic feudal society. ... This drawing may have reflected a time in European history when the elements of capitalism were gradually penetrating the old feudal system and transforming it from within. Today it's the socialist elements that are penetrating and transforming the capitalist system, bringing back the same pyramid they purportedly want to destroy.

That illustration is just one (of many) variations on this classic from not that much earlier:


This is, of course, the rigid social system that all of the Communist revolutions wanted to topple and replace...with even more rigid and restrictive social systems enforced at gunpoint!

- SK

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Chief Designer wrote:This is, of course, the rigid social system that all of the Communist revolutions wanted to topple and replace...with even more rigid and restrictive social systems enforced at gunpoint!

- SK

The IWW (Wobblies) original charter appeared under the motto, "labor is entitled to all it produces."

Ironically, even a most radical Wobbly wouldn't want this motto applied to himself.

For example, he would agree that postal workers are entitled to keep his mail because it's the product of their work. Neither would he agree that...

... laundry workers are entitled to wear his shirts...
... bank workers are entitled to dig into his savings...
... construction workers are entitled to live in his house...
... mattress and pillow makers are entitled to sleep with his wife.

A recent post by a new comrade reminded me of another reason why Wendy's deserves to be boycotted by socialists.

"...iz next, Svim-vear!"

Ivan the Stakhanovets wrote:"...iz next, Svim-vear!"

With most korrect red stars on beach ball!

- SK

Red Square wrote: The IWW (Wobblies) original charter appeared under the motto, "labor is entitled to all it produces."

Of course, labor is then entitled to maintain the machines on which they produce things, enter into contracts with suppliers and customers, decide how much each worker "needs" (in order to properly give to them) and decide how much work to take "from" them. They'll also have to decide how many workers they need in the first place, and...and...and...

- SK