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Either that or you don't really understand the age old, hostile negotiations between the owners and everyone else.

I would build a very different, simpler narrative that stretches back a lot further, where everyone is always asserting themselves ... Or not.

Aggressive, old school collective bargaining (like the general strike) worked for awhile and it seemed better than the classic alternative of copious bloodshed but capitalism adapted and absorbed and the collective memory of ordinary people has rotted away. Oh well!

But why blame the structures that briefly allowed for a massive redistribution of wealth?

Sure, they've largely ceased to function and been captured by the enemy so that means all that's left for total bourgeois victory is to foolishly misdirect the blame on to the fading memory of any agency for the victims. That is, any capacity to negotiate at all.