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  • TheOubliette@lemmy.mltoLefty Memes@lemmy.dbzer0.comLearn we must
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    23 days ago

    Organizing means getting people together and educated to take action. To use strength in numbers. Boycotts are nearly always done as individualistic moralizing campaigns. They are not organizing and they are vulnerable to PR, as their primary basis of communication is already basically PR.

    They can have good effects and can help agitate, but you are absolutely, 100%, not going to take on the haute bourgeoisie with a boycott. It will register as decreased demand and then a recession, something they are happy to preside over. A recession means they, being the people with money to weather the recession while smaller businesses fail, get to cut wages, discipline labor, and then finally expand or buy up failed businesses as the recession recedes. Many of these effects are why BDS is a good idea for impacting “Israel”, as it needs to sell itself as a safe and attractive market for people to move and stay there as colonists.

    To overthrow the bourgeoisie you need a revolution. This is not because anyone just loves fighting, but because the bourgeoisie will not leave you any other option. To organize for revolution you must join and contribute to a revolutionary organization.


  • Information density and transmission is polluted by the fears of not being convincing enough and not sounding radical enough.

    It is just rhetoric on Johnstone’s website. It is a position piece. In what way are you being manipulated? This is actually more honest and direct than the faux-objectivity of typical articles.

    […] major world events do not occur independently of the actions of the major world powers who have a vested interest in their outcomes.

    Sure, but this does not explain why Assad, North Korea or Putin are good enough for an opposition or even the seed of that.

    It is unclear to me why you are quoting and arguing with that. Do you think I am Johnstone?
















  • I mean that is very funny but don’t tip your hand like that. Start with a low-key unionization attempt, which begins with small stakes list building actions like “anonymously” signing a petition (you use the list to initially gauge interrst and the outcome of the petition to gauge the stance of management and choose next steps).



  • TheOubliette@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.mlI did that!
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    6 months ago

    The Biden admin + Canadian targetinh of Samidoun and the domestic forces have been increased throughout the admin via direct funding of cops and supplying with military equipment along with fighting to keep and expand Trump-era national guard deployments using the insurrection act.



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