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Fundraising text I got today. “Cuomo may have killed thousands, but Mamdani’s even worse!”
(hexbear.net)
The tacit understanding here being that the funding and feelings of the police is more valuable than the lives of senior citizens.
A "financial backing system" (a strike fund, in this context) is not the same as a "banking system" and, for all your lecturing here, I don't understand how even a normie could conflate the two.
What are you even talking about? Unions having strike funds is an extremely normal thing, and strikes are legal under very achievable conditions, so just assuming that the entire infrastructure of society is a trap is absurd.
Still doesn't make sense. If they're common and normal then the left shouldn't have been working on them since 2016. If we're talking about the DSA specifically, they have one. It doesn't even make since as a suggestion there either. So the person you're defending either isn't talking about a strike fund, or they are and they don't know they're common or that the DSA already has one. Either way, it's not my problem they're wrong.
For as long as capitalism exists, the left should be working on creating or maintaining strike funds.
Not every DSA branch has a functional strike fund, which again should be obvious, and I don't think counting on national to do everything is a good strategy. I think our friend is talking about strike funds, does know that they are common, and does know, at least more or less, about their status in the DSA, and none of the advice you and I are talking about is contrary to that.
They probably could have used clearer language, though.