Precariat is becoming the primary class in the imperial core. Organizing on the heels of union strikes worked for Lenin and the Bolsheviks because the power lay with the proletariat and their proximity to the means of production.
That isn't the primary conflict anymore. The source of most organizing is service related work. Nurses, teachers, and the precariat class working odd jobs and unable to unionize because of alienation from their co-workers. It's gonna be a lot harder and a lot different organizing these forces. The BLM protests showed that it's possible though. That there is anger and power lying dormant in us. No matter how much they try and sperate us and alienate us, we will still have that collective power.
I haven't considered this take enough. It's really accelerating too.
Your comment makes me want to look into / help organize a rideshare union, (NLB approved or not). You're right that there's potential there. Like a mass distribution of rideshare agitprop pamphlets is not such an impossible idea. For the few times I do use rideshare, drivers are so often bored as fuck and willing to have real deep and personal discussions. On the other hand as I understand it there are very few rideshare drivers that "identify" with the job, so there's naturally less unity there. Which I suppose yeah, that's what the nature of the precariat has always been, and why the uniting power of the proletariat have historically been the deciding factor in movements.
Precariat is becoming the primary class in the imperial core. Organizing on the heels of union strikes worked for Lenin and the Bolsheviks because the power lay with the proletariat and their proximity to the means of production.
That isn't the primary conflict anymore. The source of most organizing is service related work. Nurses, teachers, and the precariat class working odd jobs and unable to unionize because of alienation from their co-workers. It's gonna be a lot harder and a lot different organizing these forces. The BLM protests showed that it's possible though. That there is anger and power lying dormant in us. No matter how much they try and sperate us and alienate us, we will still have that collective power.
I haven't considered this take enough. It's really accelerating too.
Your comment makes me want to look into / help organize a rideshare union, (NLB approved or not). You're right that there's potential there. Like a mass distribution of rideshare agitprop pamphlets is not such an impossible idea. For the few times I do use rideshare, drivers are so often bored as fuck and willing to have real deep and personal discussions. On the other hand as I understand it there are very few rideshare drivers that "identify" with the job, so there's naturally less unity there. Which I suppose yeah, that's what the nature of the precariat has always been, and why the uniting power of the proletariat have historically been the deciding factor in movements.