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 Historically the only thing that has ever worked against the onset of socialism or communism is mass work stoppage. To the tune of about 30% of the work force. And it never succeeds without some carnage and bloodshed. Usually initiated by the state. Read up on the Polish solidarity movement. It’s very interesting. But even then, it still took 19 years between the Solidarnosc movement’s inception and the establishment of open and  free elections in that country. Best thing we can do is encourage people to lay up 3 months of provisions and just one day everyone stops reporting to work. For as long as it takes to get their attention. But until government looting starts resulting in large swaths of people missing meals for a couple days at a time, no one’s going to do shit.