Bernie Sanders/ AOC livestream: hop in the comments if you watching
Bernie Sanders/ AOC livestream: hop in the comments if you watching
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nowhere to be found when they were needed the most but when a trendy word shows up they immediately try to cash in on it
we the citizens are the only ones that can save us now
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Don't know why you're downvoted, friend. Democrats will not save us.
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This is a valid criticism, and good reason to be skeptical of their actions, but I think it's really hard to ignore that they are doing good work to get messing out there and help focus the energy brewing in a worth while direction. Even if they are not the end, they are doing important work and are at the very least a stepping stone.
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I think they are working to rally energy for a general strike; they should at least be considering it.
She keeps using this "common sense" sequence in her rally speeches. But honestly, it doesn't do anything for me. I hate the term "common sense".
I think people are far far too quick to call for general strikes in our current era. For those close to unions, strong strikes are ones that are well coordinated, funded, and supported. They have strike pay, food networks, and daycare services. We can look at calls for general strikes from established unions, like the UAW. They set it years in advance to let people plan.
A poorly supported strike can lead to scatterings of people losing money, their jobs, and faith in the power of unions. I think it's wise to not push for action outside the ability of the current state of labor in the country.
That's interesting.
Because what you are outlining in terms of urging caution around a general strike, its pretty much the identical arguments that were made by the Social Democrats during Hitlers rise to power. Its an incredibly relevant example, because it was the Social Democrats who effectively argued for your strategy when the communists and other antifascist groups were calling for a general strike.
Anyways, this strategy blew up in the Social Democrats faces and effectively because they wouldn't join with the communists in a general strike, Hitler was able to roll over all of them.
Caution is one of those things that sounds good on paper, but when it comes to tactics, sometimes there simply isn't two years to shuffle a resistance together.
An adequate plan implemented early and aggressively is always better than a perfect plan implemented one day too late. The urging of caution empowered the accelerationist approaches the fascists were using.