I strongly disagree with this position, with strong unions and good strike funds, the capitalists not only risk their more precarious members folding, but contagion as strikes spread to other areas. The film industry, with multiple interlinked unions that themselves sometimes bleed into other industries, is particularly vulnerable to this.
If the strike is supported, organised, and disciplined, it can last longer than the industry can stay in business, at which point they'll have to bring the state in. Heck, for the rail strike they had to start with "we'll twist the Government's arm so we can fire you, sue you, and shoot you if you strike, and not necessarily in that order". And once they resort to that they're in real trouble, because it shows weakness.
Strikes and Unions have threatened Capital in the past even without those. I remember skimming her book in an org library once and thinking "This is a great case for the impossibility of every actually successful strike and revolution."
Capital isn't a monolith where everyone sits down at the table of Evil to discuss how to most effectively crush the working classes. It's a bunch of squabbling factions that hate each other, and successful strikes win by hitting cracks in those factions until the coalition to protect capital starts to break apart from its internal contradictions. The WGA is historically very, very good at doing this. They did it in 2007 and I see no reason that they can't repeat the victory.
Also at this point, if we had the power to get those concessions from Capital why aren't we going for the Big Communism Button? You're not going to get it by doing a few protests and making AOC president.
You need successful industry strikes building to successful general strikes to get those concessions from Capital in the first place, you need the actual, real threat that we'll send them broke and put their heads on a spike and maybe not in that order. And once you have that...why not go through with it?
I strongly disagree with this position, with strong unions and good strike funds, the capitalists not only risk their more precarious members folding, but contagion as strikes spread to other areas. The film industry, with multiple interlinked unions that themselves sometimes bleed into other industries, is particularly vulnerable to this.
If the strike is supported, organised, and disciplined, it can last longer than the industry can stay in business, at which point they'll have to bring the state in. Heck, for the rail strike they had to start with "we'll twist the Government's arm so we can fire you, sue you, and shoot you if you strike, and not necessarily in that order". And once they resort to that they're in real trouble, because it shows weakness.
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Strikes and Unions have threatened Capital in the past even without those. I remember skimming her book in an org library once and thinking "This is a great case for the impossibility of every actually successful strike and revolution."
Capital isn't a monolith where everyone sits down at the table of Evil to discuss how to most effectively crush the working classes. It's a bunch of squabbling factions that hate each other, and successful strikes win by hitting cracks in those factions until the coalition to protect capital starts to break apart from its internal contradictions. The WGA is historically very, very good at doing this. They did it in 2007 and I see no reason that they can't repeat the victory.
Also at this point, if we had the power to get those concessions from Capital why aren't we going for the Big Communism Button? You're not going to get it by doing a few protests and making AOC president.
You need successful industry strikes building to successful general strikes to get those concessions from Capital in the first place, you need the actual, real threat that we'll send them broke and put their heads on a spike and maybe not in that order. And once you have that...why not go through with it?