In fact, one of the first recorded instances of a general strike by workers happened in ancient Egypt.

https://www.worldhistory.org/article/1089/the-first-labor-strike-in-history/

  • YuriMihalkov [comrade/them,any]
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    2 years ago

    Even accepting the premise of the meme it's baby brained shit.

    "Projects in the last few years using ongoing systems of slavery and ones that happened 5000 years ago in societies that no longer exist are equally deserving of our concern and scorn. I am very smart"

    • TraschcanOfIdeology [they/them, comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      Some of the more evil and more forward thinking sophists will use it to excuse the legacy of slavery and white supremacy of the US and most of Western Europe, by trying to point out "liberal hipocrisy": oooooh the Ottomans had white slaves, but you're not outraged about that, now, are you?