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"if you don't have a strategy, you're part of someone else's strategy."
– a. toffler
"What can we do today, so that tomorrow we can do what we are unable to do today?"
– Paulo Freire
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The IWW is pretty awesome, but to be honest, I think everything about them is pretty dated
i think solidarity unionism is an important part of the revolutionary process tho fur sher
Unionism is vital to a revolution in the industrialized word, absolutely, but the modern world is a lot different than it was in the early 20th century.
To be honest, I haven’t read deeply into the IWWs modern policies, but from what I understand, they’re just refined forms of what they promoted in the 1920s.
Do they even discuss revolutions in the Third World? And the idea of One Big Union is an almost silly concept in hindsight. And if not silly, it seems rather bourgeois in itself.
The purpose of unions in bourgeois society is collective workers resistance to capitalist oppression. The bigger the union is, the more capable they are of resisting the whim of the capitalist class. But if there are no capitalists, then why do we need a One Big Union to represent the workers?
How would One Big Union be in any way better than a congress of independent labor unions?
yeah i feel the same way about the socialist/labor parties like SWP in being outdated and only relevant in the first world too
the only reason solidarity unionism is not as relevant today is literally because labor unions today are controlled by the capitalist class, and i think you have kind of have a misconception about the “one big union” idea, IWW focuses on autonomy and *solidarity*. one big union is of course not possible but the idea is that anyone can be part of it— its a global support network. i think the problem with things like IWW and other radical leftist networks/organizations is that because they are products of the first world there is that disconnect but yeah idk its hard to think of global revolution w/o it being in the context of first world concepts anyway. they dont have a lot of resources these days, but it would be cool to see IWW chapters in industrialized third world nations but the fact that the IWW isnt there or that perhaps they “dont talk about 3rd world revolution” doesnt have a lot to do with why they continue to be important for global revolution imo
what I think is odder is the insinuation that all organisations should want to have branches or space or whatever in the Majority World - surely it’d be shittier of the IWW to assume that “Wobblies will solve all” and try the one-size-fits-all approach of IWW branches everywhere for social revolution?
When someone tells you that they got rich through hard work, ask them, ‘whose?’
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