In fact, one of the first recorded instances of a general strike by workers happened in ancient Egypt.

https://www.worldhistory.org/article/1089/the-first-labor-strike-in-history/

  • TraschcanOfIdeology [they/them, comrade/them]
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    Some of the more evil and more forward thinking sophists will use it to excuse the legacy of slavery and white supremacy of the US and most of Western Europe, by trying to point out "liberal hipocrisy": oooooh the Ottomans had white slaves, but you're not outraged about that, now, are you?