Did it occur to any communist yet that the reason the working class doesn't organize is that it's a fiction?
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Capital is real. Holders of capital are, after a fashion, a class. Workers have no unifying class. 'not-capitalist' has limited coherency.
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In fact we've already weakened states so much, we're living under feudalism 2.0
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Capital itself incites to capitalism. Ain't no class consciousness gon' change that.
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oversimplified. There are times and places where workers are classes. Huge assembly lines, etc... There was union cohesion at times.
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and by that I mean unions helping each other in big ways. Fairly standard from 1890s thru 70s. You've just never seen it.
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Ian, I'm Norwegian. I've lived with real union power longer than you have. It is only weakening now.
I'm talking about common purpose.
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workers are an economic class--they sell their labour. Only in capitalism does wage labour seem like "not a class".
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Serfs and peasants and even freeholding farmers did not sell thier labour. Selling labour to live is uncommon historically.
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