Comment on Electoral politics doesn't get the job done

• mriguy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Ok, so they do that to everybody, and now the strike can’t end. This helps them how?

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  • PugJesus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ok, so they do that to everybody, and now the strike can’t end. This helps them how?

    1. They won’t have to do it to everyone. Just enough people to make examples and frighten people into going back to work.

    2. If they do have to do it to entire workforce-sized populations, we get a cozy GULAG style labor system.

    “They can’t arrest all of us” only works if there’s means of resistance other than passive. In liberal democracies, that’s typically protests, elections, and legal avenues; in less charming regimes, it comes down to internal dissent in the security apparatus or outright force from the oppressed. If you lack those means of negotiation, or the credible threat thereof, then they literally can arrest all of you, and will, given half a chance.

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