(03-02-2021, 12:05 PM)David Horn Wrote:(03-02-2021, 11:18 AM)Einzige Wrote:(02-28-2021, 04:14 PM)David Horn Wrote:(02-28-2021, 11:43 AM)Einzige Wrote:(02-28-2021, 08:48 AM)David Horn Wrote: For the corporate elites, making their lives easier is adequate payment for the shareholder money they burn. Reducing the power of any potential adversaries is icing on their cynical cake. Why is this surprising?
What surprising is how comfortable left-liberalism are with this social arrangement and the function their institutional allies perform within it.
I think that's less true as time goes on. We've been buried in a 40+ year stretch of RW fundamentalism, and the nominal Left drank the Kool-Aid along with the Right. We'll see if that changes now.
What's going to happen, as always, is that the proletarian Left will move further left and the petit-bourgeois will retrench in neoliberalism.
The proletariat of today are mostly in the service sector: nurses aides, wait staff and other lower-level hospitality work, security guards, warehouse workers (e.g. Amazon Fulfillment) -- you name it. Almost none are organized. We'll see how that plays.
Do you work for a wage?
Lemme jump to the chase: all wage workers are proletarian (including cops, contractors some radlib theorists). Even the petit-bourgeois are proletarian trying and failing to deproletarianize themselves.