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dykefaggotry · 3 months

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global strikes really cannot feasibly be done without support and safety nets for the working class in place. the working class drives the economy and if you are asking people to take off an entire week off work with 4 days notice, you are asking the working class to get fired from their jobs. they are not going to do that. and they are the majority of the people that need to strike to have any kind of economic impact. middle class people who can afford to strike for a week and lose future vacation time aren't going to dent it, esp bc they're still making money bc they're salaried.

like yall it's just..... it's not feasible. you have to plan months, sometimes years in advance to make sure you can successfully carry the working class during a strike.

saw someone refer to a week long strike w 4 days notice as "the bare minimum" you can do and I'm sorry but it's not. you are asking people to give up a quarter of their monthly income and lose their jobs. you need to be cognizant of that.

#ben affleck smoking.jpg #this is what the third or fourth one since october?#and all of them have been planned within days of going into effect #maybe if we'd started planning in october for a january strike we could've done more #but you can't just call for a general week long strike 4 days before it's supposed to happen #and expect the working class to be able to participate #and this is not about bisan asking for it btw like #if I were in her situation I wouldn't necessarily be focusing on what was realistic or able to happen either #she doesn't have to be making feasible demands #but western leftists w no skin in this game cannot be demanding that of the working class and expect it to happen

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