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Do you think they will finally develop class-consciousness and realize their beloved & proud troops have done the same thing on foreign lands hundreds of thousands of time? (Read more) (lemmygrad.ml)
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It took Americans the murder of one white person by the imperial boomerang to finally (kind of) wake up.

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[โ€“] MayoPete@hexbear.net 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Material conditions. There's no general strike fund and no safety net here. Of course people are going to keep showing up to work when there's no realistic alternative.

[โ€“] PowerLurker@hexbear.net 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

This tbh. Without dual power (e.g. a militant organized labor movement) and some kind of vanguard structure, spontaneous movements/uprisings inevitably fizzle out.