> No, sorry, but this gets it wrong. General strikes in Latin Europe are
> a periodically recurring phenomenon in the institutionalized course of
> collective bargaining: dog bites man. Mass civil disobedience in the
> United States against the central institutions of capital is -- as
> Carrol points out -- a once in 40 years phenomenon: man bite dog.
Of course. But according to Carrol, you're not allowed to debate it either way, whether it's a man-bites-dog or a dog-bites-man action.
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