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The Only Way Forward: A General Strike

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History is clear—violence does not often create lasting change. Those who take up arms in desperation often find themselves crushed, their cause discredited, their movement erased. Luigi Mangione proved this. Murder, rebellion, insurrection—these things do not often work. They usually only strengthen the hand of the oppressor.


So, what does work?


A general strike.


Not protests. Not marches. Not riots.


A full, coordinated, systemic refusal to participate in the very machine that keeps the powerful in control.


Why a General Strike Is the Only Way

The state can suppress violence. They have the weapons, the police, the surveillance, and the laws all designed to crush dissent the moment it turns physical. They can arrest organizers. They can send riot squads. They can gas, beat, and imprison those who resist in the streets.


But what they cannot suppress is an entire population that simply refuses to work.


  • They cannot arrest everyone if no one shows up to the factories, the hospitals, the offices, the stores.


  • They cannot police an economy that ceases to function because the workers have stepped away.


  • They cannot ignore a crisis of their own making, a freeze of the very gears that turn their machine of wealth and power.


This is why a general strike is the most dangerous action of all. It is not violence—it is absence. And that absence is more powerful than any riot, any armed struggle, any protest that can be dismissed as a moment of outrage.


The Fear of the Powerful

The powerful fear only one thing—losing their grip on the system that enriches them. They fear stagnation. They fear disruption.


  • They do not fear angry mobs.


  • They do not fear righteous speeches.


  • They do not fear marches in the streets.


What they do fear is a silent, coordinated resistance that cannot be put down with force. A general strike does not give them an enemy to fight—it removes the very foundation they stand upon.


The Strike Against the General State of Affairs

We in the West must recognize that our tools for change have been systematically dismantled. Political corruption is entrenched. Public protests are ignored or met with repression. The media spins narratives that serve power, not truth.


That leaves us only one real option.


A strike against the general state of affairs.


Not just a labor strike—though that is part of it. A strike against participation in a broken system that has long ceased to serve the people.


  • A strike against consumerism—cease unnecessary spending.


  • A strike against productivity—withdraw your labor.


  • A strike against compliance—refuse to be complicit in the machine that exploits you.


This is not a momentary protest. It is an existential crisis for those who hold power. Because they can put down violence. But they cannot force an entire population to keep the system running for them.


The Call to Action

This is not a call to arms. This is not a call to riots. This is not a call to meaningless destruction.


This is a call to the only action left that can shake the powerful to their core.

A general strike.


Because history is clear—nothing else will work.


 

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