Worker burns down toilet paper factory low wages
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I missed this but heard about it on TikTok.
Good speaker, his username is archer.
I have been posting on his videos, he has said that there are two classes, the capitalist and workers, which l have been saying, this is great.Here he is talking about burning down the factory – violence and building an AI Data Centre …in the backyard of a poor neighbourhood that poisons the air…
https://vm.tiktok.com/ZNR4wppw7/
Worker who allegedly set fire to California warehouse compares self to Luigi Mangione
Chamel Abdulkarim was charged with felony and state arson counts after allegedly destroying property worth nearly $600m owned by Kimberly-Clark.
(Best known in the UK for its Kleenex Tissues and loo paper)Karl Marx analysed the destruction of factories and machinery—often termed “machine-breaking” or Luddism—as a natural, albeit misguided, response by workers to the exploitation, misery, and unemployment caused by the rise of industrial capitalism. While acknowledging these actions, Marx argued that workers needed to learn to differentiate between machinery itself and the capitalist mode of employing it.
Key Perspectives on Burning Factories in Marx’s Analysis:
Result of Industrial Crises: In Capital, Vol. I, Marx, noted that improvements in machinery, under capitalism, “throw workers out of employment” and produce the effects of a commercial crisis, leading to desperation and destruction of property.Targeting the “Material Instruments”: Marx observed that early working-class revolts (such as the Luddites in the early 19th century) targeted the factories and machines themselves.
From “Burning” to “Organising”: Marx argued that the labour movement needed to evolve from attacking the material instruments of production to attacking the system that uses them. He argued that machines, in a “well-ordered state of society,” should be a source of benefit, not wretchedness.
Context of Rebellion (Silesia 1844): Marx identified early factory uprisings, such as the 1844 Silesian textile riots, as the beginning of collective action, marking a shift toward recognising class antagonism.Marx believed that once workers realised that the machine was not the enemy—but rather its capitalist employment—they would transition from random destruction to structured, socialist revolution
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