I nominate this NYT opinion piece for shittiest take of 2024!

  • TheOubliette@lemmy.ml
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    17 hours ago

    This is one of the problems with treating class as an inherent identity, not a person’s relation to the means of production. A person that begins as a direct wage laborer is working class, but if they ascend the ladder they become closer and closer to carrying out the functions of the owner class (i.e. becoming upper management) they lose proletarian character and gain bourgeois character. So the UHC CEO may have started out working class but obviously he became a bourgeois monster.

    There’s a similar pitfall, which is the uncritical moralization of the working class. The working class has a world historical role to play and is the class oppressed by the bourgeoisie, but it can easily have reactionary elements that should not be embraced, esoeciskky not as “working class values”. The working class exists in the society shaped by the bourgeoisie, with marginalizations baked in by the bourgeoisie that can become self-perpetuating (e.g. racism), so we must not simply accept whstever the majority opinion of the working class is, let alone some random guy that ended up facilitating death and pain for profit.

    • granolabar@kbin.melroy.org
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      Y’all really need modernize the delivery lol

      Solid msg tho

      Bootlickers are the biggest obstacle to basic reforms happening.

      Education of the working class should be the priority and that’s exactly what divisive politcs is doing.

      Luigi surely did a thing… People at least in US across left/right divide are talking and noticing how media and government is behaving.

      Beautiful