Atlas Shrugged, but who is Atlas

[TheMadHatter]

I have just finished reading Atlas Shrugged. While the book is
Obviously a ludicrous right wing fantasy, recent events have me
Taking a different position. What is the labor were to suddenly
refuse to fuel the motor of capitalism? Could the Hostess strikes and
Port of L.A. Be proof theat the world is held upon the shoulders
of each common man and woman? And If so, how do we bring others
To this realization to progress revolutionary changes?

[Lynx]

A General Strike of sufficient scale and political awareness would be a start.

[jookyle]

The power of an organized collective is different from the claim that a single person has the same power and that the individual is more important than the collective. A common person striking alone is hardly going to stop the fuel of capitalism, but an organized collective of people can.

[Lobotomy]

What is the labor were to suddenly refuse to fuel the motor of capitalism?

That is the main idea.


how do we bring others To this realization to progress revolutionary changes?

That is the question, and one of the things that communists commonly disagree on.