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  • happybadger [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    A general strike amasses political capital of its own and can provide a better environment for radicalisation than an election can. As long as it isn't led by democrats or by woke capitalism and has some significant left faction wanting something more than Biden, I'll invest as much in that as I do the BLM protests that I don't see revolutionary potential in. It's an escalation which feeds into the things which will achieve what I want. The class consciousness that underlies any revolutionary movement has to come from somewhere and while unionism isn't the sole force for that it's a spectacle that can't be ignored and historically a major recruiting point for parties and militias.

    • 0xACAB [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      im out of the loop on this strike thing but you can't just organise a strike out of nowhere... let alone a general strike...

      • happybadger [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        That's unions organising it, not individuals. We've already got multiple major unions striking in fields like healthcare and education which are being hit hardest by the pandemic. A merging of those ongoing efforts and snowballing of other fields isn't a spontaneous gathering for Biden, a stolen election is just the most convenient and wide-reaching pretense for it.

    • Young_Lando [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      If it works. Frankly, judging by literally every other time someone called for a general strike, it's a failed proposition and the left is completely in a bad position to pursue this kind of thing.

      You can spend your time clowning around with libs who don't want anything, but I'll be taking a libs job and feeling good about it.