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What's preventing a General Strike in the United States? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/usa@lemmy.ml
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[–] [S] 8 points 8 months ago (4 children)

A general strike absolutely hurts the owning class because the value their companies produce is created by the workers. When the workers stop working, then production stops and that is the single most direct way to hurt capitalist interests.

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  • [–] -2 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    Again, workers take the hit. I don't want self-inflicted wounds, and hope that the Sociopathic MAGA government will take pity on us, and change. They won't change, they'll just laugh at our morality.

    I want to hurt MAGA, not citizens, and the best way to do that is take away their money, which is the ONLY thing they really care about.

    Like I said, most countries don't have a mechanism to shut down their nation's government, so they have to default to a General Strike. But we have an alternative strategy that truly hurts them where they care the most, with less damage to the Citizens. Shouldn't we start there?

    We can always start with a Government Shutdown, and add the General Strike to it if we need to tighten the noose.

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Again, you should read the history of the US because mass strikes and militant labour organization was precisely how workers wrestled concessions from the ruling class in the past. The idea that most countries don't have a way to shut down their government is also nonsense. That's just a strike carried out by government workers. Any country can do that.

    Meanwhile, the type of a government shutdown you're talking about can only be carried out by the politicians and it's entirely out of the hands of the workers.

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  • [–] -1 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    The labor strikes of the 30s were a almost a century ago, against a different kind of enemy, with different objectives. That was to obtain better wages, conditions, and workers rights. That has to be directed at the corporation that supplies those things.

    But today, our first, and biggest beef is with the government. If we want to force them to react, we have to hit them directly. And remember, it's MAGA, and they are really stupid. They require a 2x4 across the face, just to get their attention.

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 8 months ago

    The government represents the class that holds power in society, and that's been capital owning class both in the 30s and today. There's been no fundamental change in how the system functions.

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