Devils and deep seas

Strikes by public sector staff always raise my hackles. Lofty claims of national interest fall flat in the face of unmitigated misery caused to the very nation’s public the ‘public servants’ are supposed to serve. Besides, the parasitical self-interest that underlies the itch to shirk work is too obvious to be missed. At a theoretical-level too, public sector employees cannot be called the ‘proletariat’ or the ‘working class’ in the Marxian sense, even if one were to take Marx seriously.