Oliver Bateman Does the WorkVerified account

Will the general strike entail striking against the rich parents propping up some of the most visible and most nice loft-having activists behind the general strike? Asking for a friend who is rich, and wants to stay that way

Yeah, much as how I prefer my socialists to win their elections, I prefer my strikes be organized and targeted to win small objectives so the poorest among us don't starve. All this unemployment right now is basically a general strike w no objective, and will accomplish as much

if we had a much larger and more militant labor movement, that covered a larger proportion of the workforce, and a workforce more accustomed to militant workplace activism as a regular activity, all this talk of general strikes would actually be relevant

we don't have any of that we have a workforce only 6% of whom are covered by union contracts - and half of them are public employees, many of whom cannot legally go on strike (here in NY public employee strikes get the workers 2 days pay in fines for every day on strike)

now, if we want to spend the next 20 years rebuilding the unions from the ground up (and that's a DAMNED GOOD IDEA from where I sit), and if we want to build a mass left wing movement among workers that's willing and able to do that organizing......

then we can talk about general strikes in the 2040s