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A Revolt against an Indian CEO--or a horrible murder?

Something akin to Germinal's mob scene seems to have happened in India yesterday. I take no pleasure in it. A very large group of workers were laid off from a factory three months ago. They responded to the destruction of their livelihoods-- in a country with no appreciable safety net--by invading it and murdering the Chief Executive Officer of the Italian, outsourced, firm.

I'm reading Michael Burleigh's Sacred Causes at the minute. It confirms me in my belief that the French Revolution deserves a very high place in Europe's disasters, given what it spawned--alongside racial slavery and Imperialism. Is what happened in India a herald of a global disaster on the same lines?

If global capital and the model most of the west has got materially rich from--the economic model which allowed me to buy this computer, and have the life I do--continues to treat workers who didn't get anything but baubles the way it has been treating them, how long before full riots break out?

How long before what happened in India happens here?

Look at the comments on the London Times article in the second link and tell me there aren't people thinking the same thing.

Pray. Hold your loved ones close, look after your friends and wait for what's coming, but if you get a chance to avoid it--by paying down debt, by behaving decently, by reaching out, take it before it is too late.

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