An Atlas Shrugged-style strike isn’t even necessary to “stop the motor of the world”, as John Galt put it. The world will actually stop its own motor, merely by living under the outcome of its decisions. All the strikers needed to do was comply to the letter, not withdraw, if that was their only goal (however, withdrawal was still required to prevent them from becoming sacrifices to the looters’ moral code, and thus remains the course they’d take if acting in rational self-interest). They only upheld the social order because they were too moral; they refused to comply with unjust laws.

(Of course, any system that forces such a choice between morality and freedom is one best withdrawn from anyway).