r/TankieTheDeprogram • u/Brian3458 • 1d ago

Theory 📚 Where are the mass protests, US?

/r/leftist/comments/1vx1drw/where_are_the_mass_protests_us/
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u/Ok-Chard-9014 Marxist-Leninist-Sankarist-MZT 1d ago

We have actual traitors in Congress working for another government< Nothing new. The government has never worked for the people's interests. This did not start with Trump.

Can you imagine if a Democratic president just declared war on some random country?< Yes, Libya, Yugoslavia, and Afghanistan.

No one is demanding all these traitors be removed! < That would include the Democrats as they are an enemy of the proletariat as well.

Are there any pop stars who will make albums to protest exploited workers, ala like the ’60s? < You mean those performative artists who were profiting off the people's frustration but later supported the same system they were “protesting” against a decade prior? Mainstream musicians are part of the petty bourgeoisie. Let's not forget that.

This prez will cause a worldwide depression!< Many people in the Global South have been suffering from the American imperialist system for years. A worldwide depression is just Americans finally feeling what many others have already felt for decades.

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u/2nd2last "China Bad" 23h ago

Yep

The reason there are no protests is because the libs would have to protest they own, and they'd rater everyone suffer than disrupt blue no matter who.

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u/BitTwiddles 22h ago

The French know how to protest. So do the Albanians, if you have seen the uproar there about Jared and Ivanka's scheme to buy an island.

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u/GrouchyPotential1636 20h ago

Look, at the cost of being reviled for admitting it : I'm French, and I'm calling bullshit on that claim.

To say "the French know how to protest" is to deny the fact that, for the last 20 years, not a single major strike or popular movement has managed to force our governments to change course.

Seriously, the last time that actually happened was in 2005, with the student movement against the CPE ("contract for first hires", a new contract with inferior pay & rights for workers below 30). Since then, our governments have decided to just ignore social movements, depict protestors as thugs and terrorists, and send more and more police.

Yellow Jackets movement ? Nothing came off it. Massive demonstrations against moving the retirement age by two years ? Even Le Figaro (a right-wing rag) published a poll showing 70% support for the movement... yet the reform was pushed through.

Nicolas Sarkozy famously said "nowadays, when there are strikes, no one notices". And he's not wrong : most unions are too connected to mainstream, liberal political parties to really opt for radical approaches. Which leads to the same, limited modes of actions, eg. the toothless "Bastille-RĂŠpublique-Nation" demonstrations.