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We'd need to educate enough people world wide on effective tactics and preparation for a global general strike (info on how to do that here), and coordinate a single date for it to begin globally, which would essentially shut down the world economy.
With enough education on how to implement decentralized horizontal societies beforehand, we could effectively cast off capitalism without falling into the authoritarian pitfalls of the past, much like Catalonia was able to do in the 1930's..
The end result of that would be the effective elimination of poverty, homelessness, hunger, and resource scarcity after implementing a gift-economy, not unlike it's portrayed in The Dispossessed, as well as setting us up to stop the progression of climate change before it destroys humanity.
Good frog! Not only giving sources and stuff but also putting O.G. Ursula in the mix. I like you a lot.
Global coordination seems to be a big hurdle that needs to be tackled. Really wonder how wed go about that.
Every place that participates would need their critical industries to be unionized already with a non-corporate captured union. They would then need to get in contact with global union organizing groups, like the IWW or IWA-AIT, the first of which is a global union, and the latter is an organization that can help coordinate the radical unions willing to commit to a general strike.
However, it will be up to the people who form the grassroots unions in each country to push coordinating with those groups to develop a global plan, and it will take some time for that to build up enough to be viable. Though we are also rapidly running out of time to prevent domino effects from happening due to climate change, so we really need to get this happening double time.
Link goes nowhere.
Which link? They all seem to work on my end.
Just deleted due to fixed. It was the general strike one. Tried it several times just took me to no where.
Great book recommendation on that page. I canβt read online. Gonna have to order it in print but it feels counter productive.
It's not counter productive if you lend it to your friends too :)
Also work for me.