Solidarity with general strike

Power to the people! No work, no shopping on Friday, Jan. 30

Last Friday, hundreds of people joined together in a general strike/economic blackout in Minnesota in an act of defiant protest against the tyrannical assault on their city by the overfunded, hyper-violent Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) surge. Many leftists, especially those of Marxist persuasions, have hailed the idea of general strikes and economic blackouts as the most effective means of resistance against the capitalist system exploiting all of us.

Tomorrow, activists around the nation are calling for the Minnesota strike to go national. We agree it should. In solidarity with strikers, we will not be posting anything tomorrow, January 30. I also will not be posting on social media personally. Take that time to relax with your friends and family and meditate on what your labor means to those who work to exploit it.

It’s our taxes funding the billions of dollars in ICE funding. Those taxes could be used to get universal healthcare, rebuild our failing infrastructure, and develop new futuristic technology like clean energy and cures for diseases. They should go to those things as well as education, reparations, and forgiving student loans.

Instead, we labor to purchase the guns aimed against us. Every tear gas cannister exploded beneath a family of eight came from us. Every nut and bolt in a concentration camp was paid for by demands from our daily grind.

While I am usually using my soapbox to tell everyone to arm themselves, familiarize themselves with their weapon, and build mutual aid with community, I am now telling you that a general strike with clear and precise goals would do more to get our needs met than every gun and food bank in the United States combined.

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One of the reasons so much money has been spent to rally against the idea of Communism since Karl Marx penned the sacred texts is that Marxism reminds folks that our labor is the thing that runs everything. Workers have been alienated from that labor. Those who own the means of that production (capitalists) set the wages as low as they possibly can while charging the most they possibly can for the products of that labor. In short, most of us are alienated from the true value of our labor.

In a nation full of billionaires and economic narcissists who believe they are temporarily poor and are among the future elites, the truth of our exploitation is deeply unpopular. Of course, the submissive libertarians among our ranks will say some weirdo shit about volunteerism and the contract of trading time and labor for cash with a capitalist, but — outside of a union — when was the last time you could shop around for a wage?

We are even trading highly-skilled positions and years worth of knowledge and practice for badly-trained artificial intelligence (AI), itself a parasite sucking our creative labors and mindlessly spitting out the knowledge it was told to ascertain for the capitalist masters who would gladly replace us with it.

It’s fucked up. You should be mad about it. You should do something about it.

So, join us. Join the hottest person alive, Pedro Pascal. Don’t go to work. Don’t buy shit. Watch our videos with an ad-blocker. We have a great interview that was set to drop tomorrow with Macoupin County Indivisible. That will now drop mid-afternoon on Saturday. There will also be no Lovejoy Desk. I will also not shit post. Friday is a day to reflect on the value of our labor and strike against the bullshit parasites who suckle from it in order to steal our time and wages. We bought the guns aimed against us with the labor they alienated from us.

We can fight back by doing absolutely nothing.

We got this, comrades. Solidarity!