Dimmer06 [he/him,comrade/them]

The “labor movement” at absolute best is only concerned with their own members and their own organizations which they jealously guard membership to. If they were serious about the longevity of their unions or ever wielding some sort of power they would be organizing the huge mass of unorganized blue collar workers here in the US. Even the call for a general strike was really just a call to line up their contracts to expire at the same time, freeing up the less than 6% of private sector workers covered by cbas to strike.

Imo if we actually want to resist Trump or the greater American project the labor movement would be the keystone of that effort but unfortunately the labor movement as it exists is not capable of doing what needs to be done and is not interested in supporting unorganized workers do it either.

This is how like 60% of voters orient their politics. They’re fine with everything unless they see it on the news.

Don’t worry, Shawn Fain is gonna lead one in 2028 for the 2% of private sector workers who are still in unions.

Kinda crazy the US population has all these small arms supposedly to resist the government and then nobody actually resists the government even slightly.

It seems like the more ML aligned groups are talking about these things at least but they’re definitely not part of the dominant narrative here.

Even the analysis by much of the actual US left has been quite lacking around this imo. The primary line seems to be that this is bad because the actions of the US are imperialist and warmongering which is absolutely true, but it sort of just ends there. There seems to be a shying away from the actual specific conditions of Venezuela and it’s relationship to the US. Instead of solidarity for Venezuelan socialism the best the left here seems to muster is “we shouldn’t bomb you because that’s wrong for obscure reasons”. It just seems hollow and maybe even harder to build a long term movement around.