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> A general strike means the labor class ... stop working in order to put extreme pressure on the group of people who do control those contracts and who do control capital.

> Such a system ... should be Deconstructed as rapidly as possible with the expropriation of all that capital

(emphasis added)

The result, predictably, is that unions lose all their leverage against the investor class (which no longer exists) and management (which is now the government). See, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_unions_in_the_Soviet_Uni... ("[S]trikes were still more or less restricted... Unions remained partners of management in attempting to promote labor discipline, worker morale, and productivity.").




Pray tell:

How much of the Soviet Union was owned in any functional, practical or legal way, by the proletariat?

Oh zero? Did they have communal decision making? Oh also no?

How is state ownership of everything in a dictatorship relevant here at all?

It remains mind-boggling that the only thing people can fathom as an alternative to nightmare capitalism is state centralized, economic controlled bullshit dictatorship.

Unreal




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