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Originally Posted by roachboy
thanks. ocm: for the record, i think that the american system is not good and is certainly less free politically than is the french system simply because in france the option exists to strike. even if the strikes do not achieve their objectives, it is important that they be possible. without them, the system's legitimacy cannot really be placed into question.
and the fact that "we" cannot place system legitimacy into question in any meaningful way--by which i mean there is no action that can be taken that'd do it on our collective initiative---is an indication that "we" in the united states live in a soft authoritarian system.
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for what it's worth, we used to have a system in this country where one could strike without an issue. It's when those strikes affected the populace at large, then the government was able to act with impunity and not fear much political retribution.
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