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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Economic class has political power when it has a shared identity and ideology. Weber was good on this. Class alone /= everything.
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further, you can belong to the same class and have different interests. Union workers have sold out non union workers often.
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As you say, selling your labor does not imply common interest. Owning capital or buying labor does, however, to a much greater extent.
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I would say that selling labor does. All economic class is a position, economically, Needing to sell labour is a common interest.
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As far as I can tell, all cases of effective labor power lead to "all workers are equal, but some workers..."
E.g. in Norway, we now have-
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a state pension fund that protects us from hard times, by taking rent off others who are experiencing that depression... more viscerally.
It seems to me that since selling labor is competitive by nature, the successful groups effectively become capitalists, just collectively.
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Hence my comment about capital itself inciting to capitalism. Problem seems to be the possibility of gathering wealth beyond some low level.
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