i'm going to bring you back to the plot for a minute, though.

why, exactly, don't we have service sector unions?

well, to begin with, we actually do. in fact, they're some of the biggest unions still standing, it's just that they're a function of the employment environment. so, for example, the janitors and food workers at carleton university are absolutely unionized, and i watched them strike more than once at my lengthy stay there. but, you have to understand that this is somewhere where the higher paid workers - the profs - build relationships with the serving staff, and that's probably key to the whole thing.

why, though, don't we have more unionization in the service sector? why don't we have a fast food workers union the way we have an electrical workers union?

well, stop for a minute and ask yourself what socialism actually is. is it just a tactic to raise wages and living conditions? or is it a way to place property in common, under the argument that you can't provide for a proper accounting of labor?

i've made this point before: it doesn't make sense to collectivize the mcdonalds and redistribute the hamburgers. rather, it makes sense to smash the fast food industry altogether. and, that is your actual answer: socialists will broadly argue that we won't have fast food after the revolution, and there's consequently nothing of any tactical value in seizing worker control of the restaurants. now, the farms on the other hand...

so, don't misinterpret me. i'm not calling for a movement to organize the service sector; what i'm calling for is a movement to abolish the service sector.

one of the best things we can do at this point is provide alternate living arrangements. i've never been so desperate as to work a full time fast food job; i've always been lucky enough and resourceful enough to find a way out. but, if given the choice, i'd certainly rather live on a kibbutz. i would imagine that i'd be more interested in a way out than in a way up.

a real revolutionary movement should be able to see these kinds of industries as what they are, which is complete capitalist excess, and try to help people out of them. then, we can build an army with the people we emancipate.

but, i have a lot of art to do make, first.

and, i suspect i'll spend sunday morning quietly enjoying a coffee, if i show up there at all.