if people really understood how the ruling class fears working class solidarity. the amount of time and resources they put into making sure we don't just join up. they would last a day if we did. one day and they'd buckle
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But how can I do solidarity with the rest of the working class? Some of them have less than me and are responsible for all my problems in nebulous ways, some have more than me and are their social norms are risible, and I'm in competition with the ones who have the same amount as me!
Good point. Maybe we’d better give every man for himself individualism a try but if we get real successful we gang up with the other plutocrats to maintain our stature. …wait
Horizontal relationships are verboten. Everything must fit into a neat vertical structure with the rulers at the top. We must not trust our peers or view them as full human beings in their own right.
i’m genuinely really hoping that (what appears to be) our collective disgruntlement and veneration of certain Nintendo characters is a sign that we’re closer to this than before
The job I worked at a while ago had an anti union speech on the first fucking day. It was the longest part of the orientation after CPR training. When I became a supervisor, I had to attend a mandatory training by the company’s lawyer on how to legally dissuade unionizing.
I went home and asked my dad if unions were a good thing because that training made me realize that if we had a union at that company I wouldn’t have been in so much physical danger and scared when I worked in the high intensity experimental group home. Apparently unions paid for my childhood home.
when the long government shutdown was going on in 2019, airline workers got together and called for a strike and the shutdown was immediately lifted, under a far right government. we have all the power and they are terrified of us!
spend three minutes in a meeting where C-suite people talk about unions and you'll never forget how their voices quaver. they whisper the word like they're talking about Pennywise the Clown. eyes darting around, afraid just saying the word might speak a union into being. this is not a joke.
Yeah, if we could break through to folks in “white collar jobs” that they have way more in common with the person who cleans the office than they do the CEO of their large corporation, we’d be instantly a lot better off
If you had been propagandized they way they have, you'd be a Trump supporter too. You aren't better than these people, you're just a different kind of victim
I grew up indoctrinated by Baptists. I fully understand the depths of conservative propaganda. It’s a choice to keep their heads in the sand and nothing more. Their pride shoves them back in if they happen to look around even for a second. I have no pity.
Getting people involved in organizing is exactly how you pull their heads from the sand. Trump supporters aren't a monolith that all believe the same things, and many of them are just people who genuinely think he will be good for the economy and don't care about the hate.
Discounting all of those people is an enormous mistake and drastically limits your ability to organize in any meaningful way. Working class solidarity means solidarity with every worker.
I'm not saying it would be instantaneous, but I think a very short general strike could set this country on a much better path. The only problem is how many working class people have fallen for the "temporarily embarrassed millionaires" line and don't realize how good for them it would be.
A company can generate value if every CEO quit, but if every UPS or Fedex driver quit the companies would immediately die. We the people of the working class create all the value. Without us there would be no value produced. By all rights the profits and stocks should belong to us.
Which is why The Powers That Be work so hard to ensure that everyone not in TPTB hates everyone not like them. "Divide and conquer" is a legitimate attack, but in this case it's more a matter of "Make sure those we've already conquered stay divided."
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Sounds like we need more Luigis to unite the people and strike fear into the ruling class.
But it’d be irresponsible to suggest that we outnumber them 10,000 to 1. And to say we are literally everywhere.
"And if you should die explainin' how
The things that they complain about
Are things they could be changin'
Who do you think's gonna care?"
They really don't want you to think things can change.