If you’ve been been following the online “Dissident Right” for some time, you’ve probably encountered the common Marxoid theme that “wokeness” (aka social leftism) is some inherent feature of “capitalism” because most of the major corporations have gone “woke” on social policy. DR Marxoids have seized on the fact that corporations have been infiltrated by leftists who push woke shit to promote their socialist economic pixie dust as a magic cure for leftism.
What they deliberately leave out of the picture is that all of the major unions in the West are just as “woke” as the liberal jew-run corporations. Further, virtually all of the socialist political parties out there in the mainstream are equally “woke,” like the Democratic Socialists of America and the Socialist Workers Party UK. The reason this is left out of the discourse is because it doesn’t fit the Marxoid worldview and narrative that “free markets” are what cause wokeness. So if we take their own logic to its conclusion, socialism is inherently “woke” too. And this actually makes more sense, since socialism is rooted in egalitarian ideas about equality of outcome, whereas free market capitalism is inherently competitive and hierarchical, producing unequal outcomes, which is why leftists hate it.
Look up any major union’s social positions and they’re fully on board with Critical Race Theory, “racial justice,” BLM, LGBT, non-White immigration and the rest of the globalist anti-White program.
Major American unions joined forces to “Strike for Black Lives” in support of BLM rage mobs:
Unions representing millions of workers, from teachers to truck drivers, pledged to ramp up protests in the leadup to the presidential election, with walkouts aimed at forcing local and federal lawmakers to pass police reform and address what they described as systemic racism.
In a statement first shared with The Associated Press on Saturday, labor leaders from America’s biggest public and private sector unions said they would organize walkouts for teachers, autoworkers, truck drivers and clerical staff, among others.
“The status quo — of police killing Black people, of armed white nationalists killing demonstrators, of millions sick and increasingly desperate — is clearly unjust, and it cannot continue,” says the statement from several branches of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, the Service Employees International Union, and affiliates of the National Education Association.
Jennifer Dorning, president of America’s largest union collective AFL-CIO, explained her union’s work to advance negro and minority privileges in the workplace:
The events of the past year, from the many high-profile police killings of Black people to the COVID-19 pandemic’s disproportionate impact on communities of color, drive home the need for all of us to play a more active role to combat racial inequity and white supremacy. And one venue where real change can occur is in the workplace.
As the president of the Department for Professional Employees, AFL-CIO (DPE), I lead a coalition of 24 national unions representing more than four million professionals. Through bargaining for pay, benefits, and working conditions, our affiliates’ members have created sustainable, family-supporting careers in their industries. While these workplace improvements have raised standards for all professionals, employees of color tend to see some of the greatest gains from union membership.
Black union members earn 26% higher wages and are more likely than employees of any other race to be union members. Both of these factors help to narrow the wage gap between Black and white employees. Additionally, while union employees do better than their nonunion counterparts within every racial group, union membership impacts the accumulation of wealth more for nonwhite families than for white families. Nonwhite union families have almost five times the median wealth as their nonunion counterparts.
The advantages of union membership for people of color are not limited to better pay. Many union professionals have prioritized negotiating for articles and provisions that intentionally advance racial equity in the workplace. For digital journalists like those at The Intercept and Vox who recognized that a lack of diversity is a problem in their industry, this has meant securing diversity in hiring provisions that require a certain number of job candidates from underrepresented groups to advance in the hiring process.
Professionals also use their unions to negotiate for strong anti-harassment and anti-discrimintation language, loan repayment programs, and other tools to increase equity. My organization’s toolkit on bargaining for racial equity provides even more examples of the different ways that union contracts can address inequities, like pay transparency provisions.
Other major unions are constantly bragging about all their work to empower racial minorities at the expense of Whites. Unionist Ken Green explained how unions were central to the promotion of social progressivism in Western society from the outset, culminating in crucial support of summer 2020s violent BLM protests:
The labor movement has a long history of supporting social justice causes in the U.S.
We’ve long understood that social justice and labor causes are intertwined. In fact, unions have been a key force in bringing about some of the most radical societal changes over the last couple of centuries. Unions have fought for causes such as gender equality, immigrant rights, labor laws and civil rights.
When taking up social justice causes, unions perpetuate the key principles that have driven the labor movement since its inception — “solidarity, equality, democracy, and justice,” as Cindy Long at the National Education Association writes.
Racial and economic equality advocates are motivated by the tenet that economic justice cannot exist without racial justice. This stance is predicated on a long history of discrimination against persons of color in the workplace that have kept them from economic prosperity.
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Punctuate those economic inequities with the social justice people of color are currently fighting for. It’s the reason the Black Lives Matter movement has gained strength — and why communities, advocates and allies around the country have come together to grow this movement.
Unions have been one such ally. They are bringing workers together as a collective voice against the injustices toward Black communities. They are also working on a grassroots level to affect changes in their workplaces.
Labor unions have harnessed their greatest strength, collectivism, to advance the causes of the BLM movement.
“It is the historical task of the trade union movement to wield its power in the workplace so as to defeat discrimination wherever we find it,” writes Dave Ward, general secretary of the Communication Workers Union in the United Kingdom. “We know from industrial experience that it is only through unity and the promotion of collective solutions that we win.”
To that end, unions helped drive the Strike for Black Lives campaign.
On July 20, 2020, tens of thousands of people across the U.S. walked off their jobs for a full day to demand racial and economic justice. For those who weren’t able to take the full day off, organizers encouraged them to take a knee, have a moment of silence, or walk off their jobs at noon local time for 8 minutes and 46 seconds in memory of George Floyd and other victims of police brutality.
The day of action was organized and supported by more than 60 unions and social justice organizations. The organizers for the campaign listed four key demands driving the movement:
Declared commitments to securing justice for Black communities.
Legislative changes that support the advancement of Black communities.
The end of workplace exploitation of and discrimination against Black workers.
A guaranteed universal right to form unions in any workplace.
Labor unions also sponsored Black Labor Week, which Ralph Palladino, second vice president for The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) Local 1549, DC37, described as “a public educational event on the importance of the Black community and labor to the nation as a whole.”
Organized by the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) Women’s and Fair Practices Departments, the week-long campaign featured a series of interactive and educational virtual events held during the week of September 14, 2020. Daily trainings covered a wide range of topics, including:
Black History — Race and Racism in America History of the Labor Movement in Connection with the Civil Rights Movement Protest to Policy The 2020 Census: Making Black Voices Count The Power of the Black Vote
The largest teachers unions in America vehemently support teaching Critical Race Theory in public schools to indoctrinate White children in the cult of racial self-hate:
The nation’s second-largest teachers union is placing itself at the center of the national debate around critical race theory this week — taking aim at GOP opposition to it while hosting one of its most prominent advocates, who referred to former President Donald Trump as racist.
At day two of the American Federation of Teachers’ TEACH 2021 conference Wednesday, author and prominent critical race theory advocate Ibram X. Kendi and AFT president Randi Weingarten defended the academic theory while going on offense against CRT opponents.
Weingarten, who spoke first, denied that critical race theory was being taught to American students while vowing to stick up for any educator’s right to teach it.
The NEA vowed to oppose state action to keep the 1619 Project out of classrooms. The 1619 Project is the New York Times Magazine project, backed by Big Philanthropy, that spread an at-best factually challenged interpretation of American history and promoted collective racial guilt.
With the opportunity to indoctrinate students in radical-left ideology on the line, the NEA put its members’ money where its radical-left leadership’s mouth is. New Business Item 39 will be backed by $127,600 in union dues. Another NEA resolution, New Business Item 2, puts $56,500 toward political opposition research targeting activists who oppose teaching schoolchildren collective racial guilt, singling out the Heritage Foundation by name.
Lest you think that Weingarten’s AFT, the country’s second largest teachers union, is any better, note that her union brought Ibram X. Kendi to speak at its TEACH 2021 Conference. Kendi is an academic who believes that every act of democratic government must be reviewed by a commission to confirm that it conforms to his racialist ideology.
Remember that the teachers unions are not alone in pushing COVID safetyism scaremongering and radical-left social ideology. The AFL-CIO has sued the government because the government did not mandate that vaccinated people wear masks everywhere. Unions including SEIU locals have threatened a “general strike” if their Black Lives Matter–inspired racial ideologies were not satisfied. The entire house of labor has declared that it stands with the most extreme and radical factions of the Left on lockdownism and critical race theory.
You won’t hear any of this from the Marxoids of the internet “Dissident Right,” but labour unions are notoriously left-wing. In America, 99% of people who identified their profession as “union organizer” are Democrats. Unions are some of the largest campaign contributors to the Democrat Party, functioning more or less as a fundraising arm of the party:
Labor unions make up a dozen of the 25 largest outside spending groups in the 2018 midterm elections, and they are donating overwhelmingly to support Democrats, according to data compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics. Of the twelve unions, four donated money to conservatives. The Carpenters and Joiners Union, Laborers’ International Union of North America, Operating Engineers Union and American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees donated a combined total of nearly $1.8 million to aid conservatives versus nearly $43 million to aid left-wing candidates. The other unions in the top 25, the American Federation of Teachers, National Education Association, United Steelworkers, Communications Workers of America, United Food & Commercial Workers Union, American Federation of Government Employees, Service Employees International Union and International Brotherhood Of Electrical Workers, donated an additional $29 million to help Democrats win.
Unions, by every metric, stand shoulder to shoulder with the woke left. They may quibble with giant corporations over wages and benefits, but nearly all union leaders share the same basic worldview as progressive CEOs. This applies to every major union — the AFL-CIO, Service Employees International Union, United Auto Workers, Teamsters, United Food and Commercial Workers, UNITE HERE, etc. — they all endorse amnesty for illegal aliens and mass immigration. The AFL-CIO, which includes 55 unions under its umbrella, leads on this front. In 2017, the group declared that Donald Trump’s tough immigration enforcement put “our core democratic values and institutions at risk.” “When you attack immigrants, you attack workers. And we won’t stand for any of it!” AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka proclaimed in a 2020 speech.
I’m sure it’s the same phenomena in the UK, Canada and other Western countries, with unions backing the far-left parties and candidates across the board.
Unions are a major power bloc, rivaling corporations and banks in their influence over politics. A study showed that in the US, 14 of the largest 25 campaign donors are unions:
The top campaign donor of the last 25 years is ActBlue, an online political-action committee dedicated to raising funds for Democrats. ActBlue’s political contributions, which total close to $100 million, are even more impressive when one realizes that it was only launched in 2004. That’s $100 million in ten years. Fourteen labor unions were among the top 25 political campaign contributors.
Three public-sector unions were among the 14 labor groups: the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees; the National Education Association; and the American Federation of Teachers. Their combined contributions amount to $150 million, or 15 percent of the top 25’s approximately $1 billion in donations since 1989. Public- and private-sector unions contributed 55.6 percent — $552 million — of the top 25’s contributions.
Large private companies contributed $441 million in campaign contributions. Among them were banks and insurance firms such as JPMorgan Chase, trade associations such as the National Association of Realtors and the American Medical Association, and technology and telecommunications companies such as AT&T and Microsoft.
Another study found that labour unions spent $1.8 billion lobbying on the 2020 election cycle alone:
Labor unions spent around $1.8 billion on “political activities and lobbying” during the 2020 election cycle, a study published last Friday by the National Institute for Labor Relations Research (NILRR) concluded.
The vast majority of funds, more than $1.4 billion, came from the general treasuries of private sector unions while the remaining funds came from public sector unions and union political action committees (PACs), according to the study.
Funds raised by private sector unions are publicly disclosed to the Department of Labor, and researchers compiled all Form LM-2 disclosure reports for the filing years of 2019 and 2020. A significant source of funding comes from union dues and fees collected from workers in states without right-to-work laws who would otherwise be fired for refusing to pay.
Funds raised by public sector unions were drawn from publicly available state and local campaign contribution data compiled by the National Institute on Money in Politics. The data shows public sector unions at the state and local level spent around $287 million on political expenditures during the 2020 election cycle.
Union PACs spent around $57 million on campaign contributions during the 2020 election cycle, according to Federal Election Commission (FEC) data compiled by OpenSecrets. The vast majority of contributions went to Democratic candidates.
American public sector unions donated more than $93 million to political candidates and parties in 2020, overwhemlingly to Democrats. Labour sector unions “peaked during the 2016 election cycle, when groups and individuals poured more than $217 million into races nationwide. Almost 90 percent of those contributions went to Democrats, which is consistent with at least two decades of labor contribution trends.”
DR Marxoids love to claim that big finance and big corporations “run the government” and point to campaign contributions, but unions make more than half of campaign contributions so they have just as much sway as the big boys on Wall Street when it comes to getting favours from politicians, unless you believe their enormous lobbying efforts and donations to candidates are all for nothing.
So socialist unions love Democrats, BLM and Critical Race Theory, yet we’re told by “Dissident Right” Marxoids that these “working class” labour types are all based racists and anti-Semites ready to strap on swastika armbands and goose-step. They tell us that “free markets” (which don’t truly exist anywhere anymore) are the problem because many private companies (due to various pressures like ESG ratings scores, civil rights laws, infiltration by leftists & the general domination of the culture by the Left) have joined in on the anti-White hate bandwagon, but they refuse to say socialism is the problem when we bring up the anti-White unions, the anti-White stances of most socialist political parties, and so on. What gives?
What we’re witnessing is Marxoids trying to make facts fit their theories and presuppositions. They start out with a premise – “capitalism bad” – and search out facts to conform to their premise while ignoring facts that undermine it, such as the ones laid out here in this article.
The truth is that companies who are anti-White should be boycotted by pro-Whites around the world, but so should anti-White unions and government agencies who have the same positions. Singling out the “woke corporations” without mentioning the “woke unions” and “woke government agencies” gives away a Marxian bias. They want you to think that leftism only exists out there in the business world, when in fact it’s everywhere (government, media, academia). Wokeism comes from Cultural Marxism which first emerged from academia and spread to the business world and government via indoctrinated students who went on to work for them.
Critical race theory, queer theory, intersectional feminism, Black Power, post-colonialism, post-modernism… none of these ideologies were cooked up in corporate board rooms by CEOs looking to make extra profits by pandering to fringe minorities like queers and transsexuals. These were all conceived by Marxist academics in the universities and spread out like a virus via the media and politics. That the business world is now consumed by the same madness is not really an indictment of “capitalism” as such but a testament to the successful infiltration of major institutions by socially dysgenic leftists of all stripes.
Intense social pressures via the media and politicians also has an effect on how businesses react to social trends. If every news channel in the country is blasting out pro-BLM noise for a year straight, and BLM mobs are burning down entire city blocks, you can see why some business owners are bowing to the social justice mob, just as the police are doing so. Most of these big corporations and banks are run by liberal jews or opportunists inclined to agree with liberal jews, so it’s really no mystery as to why they’re all on board with the agenda.
But every government and public institution is also marching in lockstep with the agenda, so is “government” itself the problem or the people running it?
