It's amusing that ADF and others like ADF like using the communist symbol, despite thinking "communism = everything is free and none have to work."
The communist symbol is a hammer that symbolizes industry, united with a sickle that symbolizes agriculture -- workers uniting. "Workers of the world, unite!" is an old communist motto.
What's even odder is this almost fetishism they have around "The Working Class" that they idealise with that of very old late 1800's and early/mid 20th-century Factory workers, most of the western world hasn't got that kind of working class any more, hell most of them wouldn't work in such an environment.
And even at the time, the Communist message didn't take root in most nations, because the Commies (and related ideologies) didn't really catch on with the working masses and the main issue most people have with is this "If I earn it I own it" and that's hard-wired into the human condition so it the will to defend or more rightly assert your right of ownership.
Hell if anything the Commification of the Unions got gutted in the UK and parts of the world that have the same mindset, in the 70's an 80's in the UK the unions got gutted (
apart from one or two, the big one was inside London being the RMT) because a lot of militants caused major downtime and disruption to the UK and to peoples lives at really intimate personal moments.
Back in the 70's there was the "3 Day Week" where a lot of council workers downed tools and only worked 3 days of the week, this lead to a lot of problems such as rubbish piling up in the streets this wasn't lead by a vocal but small and powerful groups associated with the hard left, and they didn't care about the problems it caused for everyone who wasnt them mostly other workers that arguably lead into a harder and faster transformation of the UK economy that hurt them more in the long run.
This is reflected in two key areas in the UK at any rate -
1) People Services being renamed as Human Resources, the distinction is subtle but is phrased in such a way to make you less likely to do to them unless it's serious.
2) The concerted effort to neuter and dislike of unions in newer growth industries, In the UK the average IT worker is between 25 - 35 for non-entry level positions, i.e. people who where born into the generation that either worked in an unionised industry or suffered because of it who are not union members and if anything are mildly anti-union. I mean seriously for a second imagine if IT was unionised how long could the majority of places work for without something as basic as password resets? let alone systems that are flakey not being supported or monitored.
I could sperg on about this but I won't, what I will say is as a business owner is "My HR Person is a woman called M, she is 55 likes Yorkies, recalls people Birthdays and dislikes the Bradford Score and agrees with me that we shouldn't use it, and buys muffins and chats with the people she works with proactively and heads off most problems before I am even aware of them and is genuinely liked by them people she works with" If you find a PS/HR person like that do all you can to keep them as they are worth their weight in fucking Platinum.
