This is big news because it signals a militant and social turn for the Teamsters. This is one of the biggest unions in the country, and it's moving left fast. Fuck democratic party entryism, this is where it's at
This is big news because it signals a militant and social turn for the Teamsters. This is one of the biggest unions in the country, and it's moving left fast. Fuck democratic party entryism, this is where it's at
Makes me think the guest on the recent chapo was right. There’s a sudden social shift where everyone is complaining about their shitty job and pissed off. Possibility for a more militant left is rising and quick
If we want this we need to be on the move yesterday. I'm finding that out the hard way right now at my job. We have to be agitating and organizing because the actual building of power isn't going to happen organically absent socialist intervention. Americans are pissed enough to post memes but they're never actually going to do anything on their own unless we're leading them.
Not gonna pretend that developing socialism in the imperial core is anything other than a million-to-one shot right now, but if there was an avenue to make it happen, one potential one would be the fact that the overwhelming majority of workers fucking HATE their jobs. But since Americans have an easier time imaging the end of the world than they do the end of capitalism, instead of agitating for workers rights, we put that energy into dreams of running our own businesses one day. That's their ticket out of hellworld. If you ask workers if they like the idea of not having to worry about losing your job and then losing their home, or ask if they like the idea of workplace democracy, you'll get extreme majorities that agree. The hurdle is just getting over preconceived notions of socialism.
Odds don't matter as we don't have a choice. It is a fight for survival at this point.
IMO the main role and mindset socialists in the imperial core should have and strive towards is to just make life and the way of doing things here plain hell for the capitalists. We have to make things completely untenable and unreasonable the same way they have for us for the last 50+ years.
This is not how mass politics work
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I did this and then everyone quit their job lol
100%. The soil is fertile for agitprop and organization, we just gotta sow
Anecdotally it feels like healthcare is one of the workforces on a precipice (unsurprisingly). :)
Eh, it'll turn out to be nothing in time. Best case scenario there's a couple measly concessions for some (enough to shut people up and diffuse things) and it's back to business as usual
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yeah, it sucks
Nothing ever changes, until it does. We're either building a socialist movement or headed for straight up fascism in the long run, the idea that we're going back to "business as usual" is undialectical
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Doubt it. Feels like the machine can’t make concessions anymore. We’ve been in the same crisis of a declining rate of profit since the 70s. They’ve been carving out a pound of flesh to cover for it but that can only go so far
No, they haven't had to make any concessions since the New Deal. They've just been hollowing everything out since then.
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The conditions are so much starker here than anywhere in the west. We have by far the most potential because the leftist e*ros have been resting on their laurels for the past 30 years and haven't accomplished shit. They're pudgy and complacent because of what their fathers accomplished, purely sucdems now.
Our movement is nascent, ripe for radicalization, we'll have more grit and grind to us as the years go by. The fash will probably win, of course, but we'll be fighting the good fight while the French dweebs eat shit.
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You're getting dunked on...but you're probably right.
Remember when the George Floyd uprisings were "totally gonna set off the revolution finally you guys!!!"?
Those things don't set off revolutions, but they're major events conciousness building wise. You are what you do, so getting thousands to rebel makes thousands of rebels.
At the time, I heard that it wasn't going to set off the revolution but that the assessment that the US had no revolutionary potential was either wrong or jumping the gun.
It set a bunch of people leftwards. Yeah there's the famous examples of the libs turncoating immediately, but there was a non-insignificant amount of class consciousness raised there, especially in minority groups