• fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works
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      9 days ago

      You do see why the argument that strikes are rarely allowed but conveintly thats ok because they are needed or wanted isnt very convicing right?

      I can seem to find numbers supporting that are a rise in strikes which line up with the global trend of economic unrest, I can not find numbers suggesting what you are saying though, and instead you seem to be suggesting that yes there is an increase of illegal strikes but no body actually or needs them because the states interests are the peoples interests. That seems inconcruent to the data showing that people are in fact striking. Which is why i was asking about different data sources. Id take non-english data sources as well to be honest. Translatinh the label and methods may take some effort but i can Arabic Numerals in almost any context.

      • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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        9 days ago

        Even by western sources, strikes are falling. You keep framing them as “illegal strikes,” and in general seem content on just parroting anti-China viewpoints. If they are striking, it’s because China is bad, if they aren’t, it’s because they aren’t allowed to, etc etc. It’s as Michael Parenti puts it, a “non-falsifiable orthodoxy.”

        My point from the beginning is that China does have some strikes, but the context of said strikes is different from capitalist countries and as such trying to use “number of strikes” as a state of worker well-being is poor logic. The numbers do back broad support for China and for socialism, which is why I’ve shared them.