[lbo-talk] internal threats

[Carrol Cox]

Eric Beck: Even without the explicit statement, isn't this implied by the
action
of a general strike? Strikes are not protests; their essence is to
disrupt the formation and movement of capital. And if a strike is to
be general, then that means *everyone* has to have the option of
striking. Whole Foods explicitly denied its workers that option, and

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I've never heard of a strike that was not coercive. Why in the world would
one strike otherwise. And a general strike, implicitly, is a demand that the
government dissolve itself. That's why authorities hate anything that has
the aroma of a general strike -- e.g., secondary boycotts (outlawed by
Taft-Hartley). 

Carrol