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General strikes. Technically these are illegal when called by unions under the Taft-HArtley act, but if done at the popular level they can grind the country to
by anigbrowl 10mo ago
General strikes. Technically these are illegal when called by unions under the Taft-HArtley act, but if done at the popular level they can grind the country to a halt. But mass protest is the most effective way to bring down a corrupt government, and doesn't require waiting for an election and being disappointed by another round of political scams.
oh that isn't possible to organize
No with that attitude
authorities will brutalize the protestors
freedom isn't free
Americans are too comfortable/lazy to do mass political protest
Well we'll see whether that's true I guess.
what if this leads to civil war
If the alternative is corruption and tyranny, maybe that's a fight worth having. Authoritarian governments do not historically reach a point where they say 'well that's enough tyranny, let's not get carried away lest history think ill of us.'
- swagmoney69 10mo ago[dead]
- NoGravitas 10mo agoGeneral strikes require a large and powerful labor movement to organize them, and to provide people with material support for as long as the strike takes to achieve its goals. One day of symbolic absenteeism by the most politically involved 5% of the workforce is not going to cut it.
- anigbrowl 9mo agoStrong labor movements help a lot, obviously, but general strikes are very often not labor disputes and not dependent on union infrastructure.