Source: CounterPunch
by Phil Wilson
“The organization ‘The General Strike’ aspires to mobilize approximately 11 million people committed to coordinating a massive work stoppage. The magic number of 11 million equals 3.5 percent of the US population – a figure that organizers argue will be large enough to transform the US power structure and give workers the agency to shape the national destiny with heretofore unprecedented scope. But what would the strike stand for? There is no set of demands, no concrete goal elucidated on ‘The General Strike’ website. The values of ‘decentralization, dissent and diversity’ are listed along with the rather abstract hope to ‘dismantle the master’s house.’ Is there a way to offer a concrete means to dismantle the master’s house, to name the actual tool of deconstruction?” (04/14/25)
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/04/14/is-representative-democracy-a-front-for-oligarchy/