#marxism
"One of the most interesting parts of the book was the section on Emerson, in which West places Emerson in the larger historical context of thinkers like Marx and Nietzsche. I had not realized before how similar Emerson’s outlook is to Nietzsche, and it made me wonder how many Nietzscheans are unwitting Emersonians."
Read "Whatever happened to American pragmatism?":
#bookstodon #books #philosophy #politics #marxism
https://www.letustalkbooks.com/p/what-happened-to-american-pragmatism
The core of Marxism is understanding that the mechanisms by which people survive in the world (find water, food, shelter, medicine) which Marx called the "relations of production" shapes everything about how society works, from power structures to political ideas, etc, not the other way around.
Perverse incentives are fundamental to capitalism. Private ownership of the means of production rewards wealth inequality. That's why millions starve in the "wealthiest" nations.
Iranian youth turn to communism
#Republicans are truly the dumbest people on the planet. Imagine being an adult in #elected office and believing that someone's fashion choices are indicative of their #ideology. How TF is a #hoodie proof that someone is a #Marxist? This is just the latest #evidence that none of these #rightwing #lunatics have even the slightest idea what #Marxism is. To them, it's just a generic #pejorative for anyone they don't like. Shame on you if you #vote for these #clowns.
https://www.dailydot.com/debug/clay-higgins-john-fetterman-communist-clothing/
Imagine thinking this sentence makes sense:
"The Alaska Marxists represented by the Alaska Chamber of Commerce..."
#S4A Livestream #107: Observing 9/11; Dupes for Fascism; Popular & United Fronts; Lots of Chat & More
#socialism #socialist #communism #communist #marxism #marxist #news #politics
This was a nice review of what seems to be an important book about the historical relationships between the philosophies of Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, nature and the science of ecology
#marxism #ecology #nature #marx
https://magazine.scienceforthepeople.org/online/john-bellamy-foster-return-of-nature-review/
Abstract from the #book 'Understanding #marxism' authored by R.Wolff.
The more surplus the #capitalist can get from the surplus-producing laborers, the more funds the capitalist has to consume, grow, compete and secure the system that puts the capitalist on top. Productive
laborers will likewise always seek higher wages as their standard of living (and that of their family) usually depends on those wages
Class struggle is the unavoidable result of capitalism"
“As in private life one differentiates between what a man ("old world" language) thinks and says of himself & what he really is and does, so in historical struggles one must still more distinguish the language and the imaginary aspirations of parties from their real organism and their real interests, their conception of themselves from their reality.” – Karl Marx
#Philosophy #capitalist #economy #MoralGranstanding #politics #economist #marxism #psychology
#Marxism is fundamentally based on egalitarianism; therefore it's anti-capitalism
Post-hunter-forager culture, economies developed in which minority groups controlled the majority (labour groups) via controlling the means of production (e.g., kings, slave owners & later employers. AKA privately owned businesses)
Workers need to pay the rent, etc. Surplus (profits) from the labourer's work; the employers use to indoctrinate the masses (e.g., owning social media such as #twitter, #facebook)
#book #socialism Understanding #Marxism by R. Wolff https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44403028-understanding-marxism
"#Capitalism, #Marx said, never went beyond those economic models where a few dominate a majority. Capitalism just replaced the dichotomies of master/slave and lord/serf with a new one. A dominating and exploiting minority was still there, but it had a new name: employers...
The masses of people are subordinated"
#economics #politics #corruption #greenwash #lobbying #business #money #inequality
Great discussion. On the classic popper white swan narrative, when we discover a black swan, we modify the prior, evidence based assumption. For example, the majority of swans are currently white.
Fundamentally, any system that doesn't base their ideas on the evidence, is quackery (if they say their ideologies are as comparable as empirical evidence)
Marxist Voice: Is #Marxism a #science? The poverty of Popper
Episode webpage: https://soundcloud.com/socialist-appeal/is-marxism-a-science-the-poverty-of-popper
"Lukács interestingly documents the extent to which some Nazis even acknowledged the absurdity of their own doctrines, cynically admitting its use as an ideological justification for imperialism on a vast scale. What mattered was less the “truth” of the Nazi race doctrine and more its capacity to “elevate” the German people."
An insightful review of The Destruction of Reason via: https://jacobin.com/2023/09/georg-lukacs-irrationalism-right-wing-thought-philosophy
#Politics #Philosophy #GeorgLukács #Fascism #Socialism #Marxism
To extend the analogy, the so-called socialists want to replace those 150 white men with 300 enlightened white men who will surely take into account the needs of people who aren’t white men.
This was proven by the grand success of (checks notes) the USSR, which had literally zero bigotry. We know, because they told us so, and they would never lie, not even to semi-human gays, or half-human Jews, or those subhuman non-Russian ethnics.
Huh, it’s almost as though colorblind socialism has always been pretty damned bigoted. Then again, so was Marx, even for his time.
Marxism–Leninism - Wikipedia
"Trotskyists believe #Marxism–Leninism leads to the establishment of a degenerated or deformed workers' state, where the capitalist elite have been replaced by an unaccountable bureaucratic elite and there is no true democracy or workers' control of industry"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marxism%E2%80%93Leninism#:~:text=Trotskyists%20believe%20Marxism%E2%80%93Leninism%20leads%20to%20the%20establishment%20of%20a%20degenerated%20or%20deformed%20workers%27%20state%2C%20where%20the%20capitalist%20elite%20have%20been%20replaced%20by%20an%20unaccountable%20bureaucratic%20elite%20and%20there%20is%20no%20true%20democracy%20or%20workers%27%20control%20of%20industry
What an excellent interview with Kohei Saito on the Future Histories @FutureHistories podcast!
His English is amazing. I have only ever seen him on Japanese TV — I first learned of his work from 100分de名著 a couple years ago. Looking forward to reading his book which I bought as soon as it came out.
https://futurehistories-international.com/episodes/s02/e55-kohei-saito-on-degrowth-communism/
"Education does not change the world. Education changes people. People change the world."
Happy Birthday to one of my favorite authors, thinkers, and #marxists, Paulo Freire. If you have not read the book, "Pedagogy of the Oppressed," I highly recommend it.
#botd #PauloFreire #left #marx #marxism #socialist #communism #socialism #education
And a part of this process is that every critique and analysis of the wealthy as a social group will be labeled #marxism, communism, etc. which is the first stage in purging intellectuals from their posts.
You see, the #billionaires get to analyze the rest of us in excruciating detail to manipulate us into impulsive decisions or otherwise extract money and work from us. But we don't get to do that in return...
Arrrg! Many speakers & academics of #Marxism are annoyingly vague. They go on & on about history & what's wrong with #capitalism, but they seem to not be able to relate their ideas to practical applications.
For example, what form of #socialist #economy are they advocating?
What role, if any, do centralized governments have?
Marxist Voice: From Marx to Trotsky: The history of the #Communist International
Episode webpage: https://soundcloud.com/socialist-appeal/from-marx-to-trotsky-the-history-of-the-communist-international
#economics #economy #capitalism #socialism #marxism #politics #money
Richard Wolff debates FOX's Stuart Varney on Wealth Distribution & Worker #Cooperatives https://youtu.be/f-p5OT89-Uc?feature=shared
Whilst l don't agree with everything R. Wolff says on social media, l do agree with everything he says during this YouTube clip.
The "debate" reveals that #capitalists & their social media gatekeepers are all about protecting their own arse (or assets depending on your point of reference)
That’s 100% right and I think most people do understand it. The same argument however is irrelevant for Putinverstehers because they internalise Russian imperial narrative, according to which expansion is the natural right of #Russia and whoever limits its expansion threatens Russia. Their brains are rewired and any arguments will simply slip through them.
It’s very much like with how I recently described the process of “studying” #Marxism, which is really the reverse of studying anything - in order to “understand” Marxism you are required to accept its axioms a priori without actually trying to analyse or understand them:
https://write.as/arcadian/why-marxists-describe-marxism-as-cryptic
#Marx #Marxism #Capitalism #BigTech #AI #Automation: "The tech industry is structured for groupthink. It needs a perpetual supply of shiny new paradigms to impel new waves of investment. Generative AI seems to be the latest one. Still, there is more substance to generative AI than to cryptocurrency or the metaverse, which were the most recent candidates for the next new thing. Crypto never managed to become anything more than a casino, and the metaverse barely exists. By contrast, generative AI has all sorts of obvious use cases. It also has a “wow factor” that helps get the blood and capital flowing. ChatGPT, Midjourney, and the like may not signal the imminent arrival of an artificial superintelligence—I have my doubts—but they do demonstrate real technical sophistication of the kind that we didn’t see in, say, NFT apes.
As for what this shift means for worker struggles, it is important to note that generative AI is a labor-intensive technology. The data on which AI systems are trained needs to be sorted and labeled by humans. The outputs also need to be evaluated, especially to prevent AI interfaces from engaging in racist outbursts or other undesirable behavior. Most of the people who do this work are poorly paid; some are starting to organize. In May, a group of more than 150 Nairobi-based workers who helped to create ChatGPT and who maintain Facebook and TikTok voted to form a union. This is the sort of struggle that deserves the close and careful attention of journalists and organizers. AI tends to be presented in popular discourse as quite abstract, but at root it’s profoundly industrial, and the working conditions of the people turning its cranks can be downright Dickensian."
https://www.nybooks.com/online/2023/09/16/a-marx-for-all-seasons/
#S4A Livestream #106: The Russian Bourgeoisie’s Pseudo-Anti-Imperialist Stumbles; BRICS; RICO; & More
#socialism #socialist #communism #communist #marxism #marxist #brics #china #russia #ukraine #india #brazil #news #economy #imperialism
The state cannot #discriminate on the basis that the current administration doesn't like the concept of #Marxism or #communism. #Discrimination on that basis constitutes #viewpoint discrimination—a violation of the #FirstAmendment. To be clear, the #AmericanLibraryAssociation (ALA) isn't a #Marxist or #communist organization. The complaint against them is completely fabricated to advance a specific agenda in #badFaith. Calling the ALA "Marxists" is just a red herring.
https://www.alternet.org/clean-up-alabama-marxist-library-2665304476
@chris The Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) may interest you. I doubt it'd be a perfect match, but such a thing probably doesn't exist :P
#socialism #communism #marxism #MarxismLeninism #PartyForSocialismAndLiberation #PSL
'tis the season to rewatch 'can dialectics break bricks?', an action-packed masterpiece (full stop) of #situationist #cinema that will make you think & laugh & learn. i guarantee, you've never seen anything like it. #renevienet #kungfu #classPolitics #detournement #satire #martialArts #marxism
https://piped.video/watch?v=6y9Xdf6qa0Y
#ClimateEmergency #Marxism A Fresh Take on Marx, Gone Green
‘Degrowth communism’ could address our most pressing social ills, argues Japanese scholar Kohei Saito.
https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2023/09/11/Green-Marx/?utm_source=daily&utm_medium=email&utm_term=intro
2008-Style Global Financial Crisis to Re-Emerge as QE Reaches Limit? (#S4A Livestream 105 Supplement)
#socialism #socialist #communism #communist #marxism #marxist #housing #housingcrisis #economy #socialismforall
"the book traces the changing family politics of racial capitalism in the industrial cities of Europe and in the slave plantations and settler frontier of North America, explaining the rise and fall of the housewife-based family form." Quasi ohne Nachdenken sofort bestellt: "Family Abolition: Capitalism and the Communizing of Care" von M.E. O'Brien,
#Bookstodon #abolitionism #family #feminism #polsci #socialtheory #communism #marxism
From Kosovo to Ukraine
https://www.europe-solidaire.org/spip.php?article67600
Gilbert "Achcar’s The New Cold War deftly arms internationalists with the historical knowledge needed to develop new strategies to build the international working class in a new period of inter-imperialist rivalry. What these strategies may be, however, remains only to be discovered beyond the pages of The New Cold War—in the existing conjuncture of struggle as it develops day by day".
Beaverton: Justin Trudeau and 10 other Marxists you should know https://www.thebeaverton.com/2023/09/justin-trudeau-and-10-other-marxists-you-should-know/ #satire #canada #commentary #MargaretThatcher #PierrePoilievre #JordanPeterson #justintrudeau #StephenHarper #FeaturedPost #RonaldReagan #AdamSmith #communism #SteveJobs #Beavfeed #National #KarlMarx #Listicle #AynRand #Marxism
#AI #STS #CriticalAI #Algorithms #Automation #Capitalism #Marxism: "Matteo Pasquinelli’s The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence offers a compelling new perspective on the nature of artificial intelligence (AI). The author situates the recent development of AI in a longer history of attempts to automate work activities already in the Industrial Age, noting that current AI systems have an old pedigree prior to modern computers. This history, the author claims, extends into the distant past where algorithms were already embodied in ancient rituals to transmit knowledge and skills. By situating AI in a historical perspective, Pasquinelli urges a substantive rethinking of the nature of artificial intelligence and calls for a fresh approach to meeting the challenges and recognizing the opportunities posed by this technology.
Pasquinelli’s central thesis is that AI does not emerge by replicating human intelligence, but from encoding human activities into repeatable procedures – algorithms. In other words, the true basis of AI appears not as an attempt to create a thinking machine, but as the latest iteration of the algorithmic modeling of social practices. Pasquinelli asks, “What is AI? A dominant view describes it as the quest ‘to solve intelligence’ – a solution supposedly to be found in the secret logic of the mind or in the deep physiology of the brain, such as in its complex neural networks. In this book I argue, to the contrary, that the inner code of AI is constituted not by the imitation of biological intelligence but by the intelligence of labour and social relations” (p. 2). He reframes our understanding of AI primarily as a technological entity to its reflection of human practices and social forces."
https://mediatheoryjournal.org/review-matteo-pasquinellis-the-eye-of-the-master-reviewed-by-alex-levant/
In his defense, when you’re that far to the right, it’s hard to see the difference between left and far left. And, rhetorically, it’s to your advantage to pretend that your opponents are as extreme as you are.
In the US, this shows up as the RNC perennially pretending that the DNC, which is actually liberal, is somehow socialist. It also shows up as the actual socialists insisting that the DNC and RNC are “the same”.
"Lavender & Red (Parts 4-6)" (2004) by Leslie Feinberg. When LGBTQ+ History Meets Socialist History.
#lgbt #lgbtq #socialism #socialist #communism #communist #marxism #marxist #germany #russia #history #politics
Interestingly, in #France the “Main Currents of #Marxism” was published already in 1978… but only the first two volumes were translated into French out of the total three. Kołakowski later wrote that this was because “the third volume would provoke such an outrage among French Leftists that the publishers were afraid to risk it.” I checked, and it’s true, the third volume is neither published nor even mentioned by French editor:
https://www.fayard.fr/sciences-humaines/histoire-du-marxisme-9782213018980
I have just noticed that 🤍 Internet Archive🤍 has uploaded two classic works on #Marxism and #USSR that were previously of little availability.
Leszek Kołakowski, “Main Currents of Marxism” (1976) is an encyclopedia of Marxism in three volumes (the English edition joins them in a single book). The first two discuss in great detail the history of socialist and communist movements, including Marxism, Leninism, Stalinism etc and TBH they are a bit too Biblical for me, but the third volume in the first place looks at their practical outcome and intellectual decay. If you were ever wondering whether the Soviet system was an anomaly or a correct derivative of Marxism-Leninism, Kołakowski discusses that in great detail.https://archive.org/details/maincurrentsofma0000koak
Pawel H. Dembinsky “The logic of the planned economy : the seeds of the collapse” (1991) is an evidence-based analysis of the Soviet economy from both economical and ideological point of view. If you are interested in the practical peculiarities of the Soviet economy and how it was built on top of ideology, this is the book to start (and it’s not too long). https://archive.org/details/logicofplannedec0000demb/mode/1up
If you are socialist, anarchist or generally left-leaning person, you should be reading these books in the first place. These are not #socialism bashing rants in any way: quite the opposite, these books offer a clear distinction between social-democratic movements which made the EU what it is today, and the socialist-revolutionary ones which made USSR what it was, and what #Russia is today. Most importantly, they precisely explain how each of these happened and offer a practical guidance on where to draw a clear moral border to avoid finding yourself in the place where Stalinists ultimately found themselves murdering millions of people because “you can’t make an omelette without breaking some eggs”.
After reading tons of Marxist literature, I can testify these books have one huge advantage over many Western publications: they were written by people who saw Soviet Marxism-Leninism in real-life. Where many Western writers had read Soviet Constitution and took it at face value, these guys saw it in action, thus sparing you embarrassingly naive statements such as “but it guaranteed freedom of speech!” or “but at least they gave away apartments for free!”.
No, any guarantee written on paper is worthless if you are prohibited from leaving not only your country but even your own village and are practically property of the state, which is the nuance that usually escaped the attention of well-fed socialist philosophers in Great Britain, France or USA.
Is it a coincidence, that whenever I read modern “introduction to #Marxism” books, I always end up smiling over fragments where authors essentially tell you that the only way to understand it is switch off your brain and just blindly accept Marx’s “cryptic assertions”.
No, it’s not a hyperbole, they literally use these words - this is David Harvey’s classic “A Companion to Marx’s Capital”:
Marx here lays out fundamental categories in an a priori and somewhat cryptic, take-it-or-leave-it fashion that could do with elaboration. But I am also interested in getting you, as quickly as possible, familiar with the kind of close reading of Capital that is necessary if you are to understand it. Don’t worry, I will not continue at this level of intensity!
Then Harvey uses the adjective “cryptic” at least 10 more times in the book, haven’t checked synonyms.
Maybe it’s just a coincidence? I checked “The Oxford Handbook of Karl Marx”. Different wording, same confusion:
For those wishing to better understand Marx’s work, the historical debates and traditions within Marxism, and the range of ways in which Marxist theory is being used for social science today, finding a point of entry can be daunting. (…) Marx developed a technical terminology that Marxists have found very useful (e.g., use-value, exchange-value, organic composition of capital, etc.) and a method of analysis (dialectical materialism), both of which can be difficult for the uninitiated to understand.
This reminds me of another popular philosopher who wrote these words:
It was found that many old words in the field of philosophy, when used, conveyed to people an entirely new idea. The exactness of Dianetics and Scientology required a more precise approach. This approach was achieved by special naming with an eye to minimal confusion with already supposed or known phenomena. (…) The only reason a person gives up a study or becomes confused or unable to learn [Scientology] is because he or she has gone past a word that was not understood.
Do you know who was the author? L. Ron Hubbard, inventor of Scientology, a well-known sectarian and pseudo-scientific cult popular in the US.
Or donc j'ai lu "Exploiter les vivants" de Paul Guillibert, chez les éditions Amsterdam.
Et c'était une synthèse niquel de ce que la pensée marxiste dit de l'écocide, de ses causes et de ses liens avec les luttes féministes et anticoloniales ; le tout en cherchant à définir un communisme du vivant.
Chaudement recommandé, donc.
#amsterdam #marxism #book #ecocide #lecture #guillibert
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People, with all their differences, are inscribed in a mode of living and mode of production that constantly refers to an elsewhere: to cheap labour and nature. The products and the commodities that people are consuming don’t indicate the conditions under which they were produced.
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https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/transcending-the-imperial-mode-of-living
#capitalism #imperialism #colonialism #inequality #marxism #ClimateChange
While we're talking about #Marx and #Marxism, here's an excellent pod with @thecommongreen interviewing Ben Wray on Marx's analysis of the #GigEconomy.
@Loukas Like so many true-belief religions, #Marxism is more afraid of and more hostile to those they see as 'heretics' – people with closely related but heterodox beliefs – than to those with clearly distinct beliefs.
And with reason. The workers and intellectuals whom all left wing movements seek to attract are more easily lured away by other left wing movements than by capitalism.
I saw a newspiece yesterday that basically blames China for all the drug shortages. And another the day before with the good old "but at what cost".
So here is a very good comment I read over at Hexbear and copied to my clipboard:
"The liberal version of history coincides with the reactionary version of history because they both refuse to question the premises of capitalism. That is they both agree more over capitalism and Western Hegemony than they disagree about specific cultural issues. They don't all have to be in the same room, coordinating on a narrative, because they all share the same boundaries of inquiry. So the same kind of stuff gets written without active coordination. This is a roundabout way to say they're all of the same class. They have class solidarity.
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@Manigarm Thanks for putting #Marxism into a frame of understanding that people can rely on before studying volumes of original texts and the complex body of work interpreting them. In the best case your essay which takes on the nearly impossible task to translate Marxism to social media inspires them to do just that.
"Cultural Marxism" is toxic anticommunism condensed to a lethal weapon - the enemy signature of the mass murderer Breivik and of nowadays #fascism should be seriously analyzed.
These authors are promoting nothing more than the #Christian #patriarchy that #Republicans on the #religious #rightwing have long promoted; they've just decorated it with #leftist ideas like #Marxism and #feminism. Their musings are as substantial as a late-night bull session in a college dorm room. Their only proposal to reverse the decline of #Christianity is to do even more of the stuff that drove people away in the first place.
Recommended ⬇️
Marx's Theory of Land, Rent and Cities
Don Munro
"The property in the soil is the original source of all wealth, and has become the great problem upon the solution of which depends the future of the working
class" (Marx 1872)
Imperialism isn't solely a feature of the right. Lenin also desired to quash indigenous identity movements, hoping to give people an illusion of choice while ultimately succumbing to imperialism, just with a communist spin.
>And I really enjoy it when they do the final mask-pull: "you made me go hard right by rejecting my guns".
Scratch a liberal and a fascist will bleed. Not too surprising there. It's never "now I'm a commie, a member of the Socialist Rifle Association, and active in my community" with them. Instead, they're convinced the rifle makes the revolution.
Rifles may be necessary for a revolution, but they sure as hell aren't sufficient. Rifles don't win revolutions. People do.
"We can see the same principles in a recent study on transport-sector decarbonization in high-income countries published in Nature. The authors write: “We conclude that, as well as implementation of emission-reducing changes in vehicle design, a rapid and large-scale reduction in car use is necessary to meet stringent carbon budgets and avoid high energy demand.”11 In other words, yes we need to transition to electric vehicles—but we also need to scale down the automobile industry at the same time, while improving and expanding public transit options to ensure mobility for all. Efficiency, yes. Technological innovation, yes. But sufficiency and equity too."
...
"Does it really make sense to grow dirty things in order to get clean things? We must be smarter than that. Necessary innovations can be achieved directly – through public investment in innovation – while simultaneously scaling down less necessary forms of production. In fact, the former is enabled by the latter. Engineering talent that is presently organized around developing, say, advertising algorithms, can be remobilized instead to develop better renewables and transit systems."
The article is definitely worth a read.
https://monthlyreview.org/2023/07/01/on-technology-and-degrowth/
#GreenGrowth #capitalism #socialism #degrowth #JasonHickel #communism #marxism
I'm treating this book like a textbook, except I'm now a lot more comfortable writing in books than when I was a student.
Learning scientific #socialism is difficult. It has its own vocabulary with contrasts greatly with common understanding of the same words like value, class, etc.
Ooooooh, the Fedi is blowing up about some "mainstream" news source getting defedi'd, and is thinking news is somehow exempt from the rules that govern all other aspects of politics. If you haven't read Manufacturing Consent or Inventing Reality, you can just say that.
@Zarffyn Don't worry. That mini freak out over your pharmacist telling you they can't fill your insulin prescription is just a minor side effect of ✨The Efficiency of the Free Market✨.
"markets automatically lead to monopoly (because more scale is always more efficient, this is also why i wear clown shoes)"
then WHY ARE GOVERNMENTS SO DAMN EAGER TO CREATING AND PROTECTING MONOPOLIES? WHY COPYRIGHT, PATENTS AND PROTECTIONISM?
just some food (F') for thought (T).
when you eat under capitalism it is described by the following smartboy formula:
E – F – E'
E is the energy you expend to get the food.
F is the food, you eat it.
E' is the energy you derive from the food.
capitalist eaters try to get more energy from the food then they put into acquiring and eating it. this is obviously horrible and bad.
The #WashingtonPost is out here doin' what capitalist papers do, pretending to be on the side of "actors and writers already struggling to get by" while complaining about the strikes and leaving the studios largely unscathed and unexamined. The article is an excellent example of Inventing Reality (or Manufacturing Consent, if you prefer).
#WGA #SAGAFTRA #WGAStrike #SAGAFTRAStrike #socialism #communism #marxism #TradeUnionism #InventingReality #MichaelParenti #Parenti #ManufacturingConsent #wapo
"So would you say that both labor aristocracy and the precariat are part of the proletariat even if the former are unlikely to side with their class?"
In the sense that the labour aristocracy does not own the means of production and still has to sell its labor to survive -- albeit on more favorable terms than they'd normally be able to -- I'd argue that yes, the labour aristocracy is part of the proletariat. Though, as you recognized, those favorable terms make their material conditions such that they are unlikely to rock the boat and risk those favorable terms.
https://apollolemmon.com/2023/07/16/social-digest-2023-07-09-2023-07-15/
