Reply #387: There is no capitalist class. American society is based on naked ambition and greed. [View All]

[Leopolds Ghost]

Give an American a fish and he will thank you. Give an American a $20 bill and he will laugh at you all the way to the bank. This is true for rich Americans, poor Americans who wish they were rich, and leftist intellectuals who wish they were working class (so long as it doesn't mean grinding poverty and the absolute lack of control over anyone's life or future that real working class status means in this country.)

In other words, you can't argue that the working class "should" do something when you are isolating them as a class, because that requires you to either lie about who is working class, or pretend that they have bargaining power over anyone -- even their landlord. If they did, in America's lottery mentality, they wouldn't be working class. That's why materialist leftists abandon factory floor jobs as soon as they get the chance to get paid as a union rep. Because they are, well, materialists.

Trying to attain bargaining rights thru violence simply creates a climate of envy towards the rich and their belongings, instead of establishing that wealth is wasteful and unnecessary, it somehow suggests that the wealthy are somehow depriving you of your fair share of their private jet.

Not to mention that there are no factories left in this country, so a class war mentality benefiting the producer class makes ZERO sense, and I don't see you going abroad to fight on behalf of the actual factory workers.