Let's make fun of Trump, bash him, etc. while we can!

[David Horn]

(03-02-2021, 12:12 PM)Einzige Wrote:

(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: 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.

First, I'm retired so I work at being entertained -- not for wages or other remuneration.  Not all wage workers are in the proletariat either. Cops are on salary, so they don't really count.  Many are highly paid as well.  For that matter, salaried workers are more likely to be "oppressed" than wage workers, because 50, 60 and 70 hour weeks still pay the same as 40 hour weeks.  That's why some professionals chose to be paid by the hour to assure that they are not manipulated.  For example, hardworking Nurse Practitioners and Dental Hygienists top-out at 6-figures -- hardly an oppressed class. The ones that need help are Grocery Clerks and Gig Workers, among others.