Thinking about trying to organize a campaign on this. On one hand it would help a lot of people and probably be about as radical as electoralism gets. On the other it would basically pacify a front of the class struggle, perhaps the most vital front, labor, without fundementally changing the relationship between the classes.
For clarity we'd be talking about a 5 or 6 dollar an hour increase over a two year period.
:this: To get something like this actually enacted you'd have to organize a working class movement as radical as the labor movement of the 20's
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You can't just go straight to revolution, you have to go through the dialectical process of negation. People aren't going to want to go straight to violent political action because ya know they might fucking die. They're going to want to start with the form of politics most familiar to them, electoralism, and then when that process proves non-viable for achieving their goals they'll move on to the next form and so on. Organization is key here because it allows the power of the working class to persist across the transformational process. There are plenty of protest movements geared toward electoralism that, when that avenue proves futile, just disband because they weren't really organized and couldn't be redirected to other political formations. So to circle back to the original question, you can organize a labor movement around pursuing better wages and then it's up to capital about whether they'll acquiesce to worker demands or push them further towards revolution by refusing to give in
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