France! OMG!

[sabotabby]

More on locustinferno's and dobrovolets' LJs.

From frandroid: Layton=Lenin?

And more on immigration: Great post. (Hat tip: aaronfreed.)

A funny video about the obstacles that face neo-Nazis.

Comments

[earthlingmike.livejournal.com]

I didn't know that, interesting. I heard recently that Germany has some even more different approaches to labor than what I'm familiar with. (I'm American)

[dobrovolets.livejournal.com]

Yeah, in Germany the union leaders serve on the boards of the companies, and there are "works councils" in several factories with joint union and management representation to deal with disciplinary and production issues. It means that on the one hand German unions don't give management the kind of absolutely free reign over production issues that their U.S. counterparts conceded after World War II, but it also means that they're even more tightly incorporated into the notion of "pitching in for the common good," i.e., for the health of shareholders' profits. The whole system is an odd hybrid of survivals of the workers' councils that arose in the 1918 revolution that overthrew the Kaiser and ushered in the Weimar Republic, the corporatist measures devised by the Nazi regime, and efforts by postwar Social Democrats to ensure industrial peace and business growth.

[earthlingmike.livejournal.com]

Well Germany is a leader in engineering, perhaps they're doing something right.

Wow, you know your history! I wish I could say the same for myself.