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[โ€“] Telodzrum@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Lack of grassroots, well-structured organizing to kickstart a movement in an economy of 250 million workers.

The fact that a general strike hurts smaller and less-wealthy businesses first and hardest. It only further consolidates wealth and market share into the hands of mega corporations.

Loud, terminally online leftists need to stop romanticizing Eastern Europe in the 1950s and address the landscape in front of us today. Economies and the culture we face now is distinct from those in the past and require different tools to dismantle.

[โ€“] orc_princess@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 hours ago

People in more precarious positions than now organized and that's how they got every concession ever. The conditions may be different, but it will only get worse without organizing and striking.