"To defend the truth, to articulate it with humility and conviction, and to bear witness to it in life are therefore exacting and indispensable forms of charity."

H. H. Benedict XVI. Caritas in Veritate Encyclical. June 29, 2009

Monday, December 29, 2008

Market unionism

The worst unionists' error is not being conversant with praxeology. It's understandable that, due to its historic development, unions discourse are mostly based on marxism, but if unionism is to survive it has to urgently turn into market unionism.

Market unionism would be more motley. Free employees associations to fight for collective gains vis-à-vis employers are expected to be so diverse according to particular institutions that although some of those assoctiations would be more similar to current unions, others would be akin to Costa Rican asociaciones solidaristas, shareholders boards or not paradigms not thought of up to now.

I don't know if employees associated under unions would someday stop fighting for barriers against entry, but even so, unionist leaders should pay more attention to the science of praxeology in order to understand the world better and by this being more able to design strategies.

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