i'm white collar. my mental health has been absolutely fucked this past year. isolation and loneliness is making life so fucked. at times i feel like all i do is eat and sleep for the sole purpose of being able to work.
white collar is still working class so not sure wtf op is going for in his post
Leftists like OP don't have any understanding of class beyond class signifiers. It is no different from Republicans thinking you're working class cause you wear flannel and listen to country music.
This is true, PMC are working class but in practice those class signifiers often add up to having a drastically different life experience than your "typical" working class. A lot of PMC live no less of a cushy life than a lot of petite bougies and they often don't really have any immediate material reason to identify as the working class.
I might be talking out of my ass though, I welcome some 2nd coming of Marx theorylord putting me in my place.
this site is excessively antagonistic towards PMC/petit-bourgeois people and i don't really get it. yeah, a lot of PMC people are soulless ghouls but they are still workers and most great revolutionaries throughout history have been petit-bourgeois. just because they can afford a couple of luxury items doesn't make it so the labor and living conditions under capitalism are any more bearable.
Mao's father was one of the wealthiest farmers in his town (sure, you could say he wasn't petit-bourgeois because China hadn't reached capitalist development, but he was still privileged socioeconomically), Fidel came from a relatively well off family (his father being Spanish and Fidel having studied Law in what probably is the most prominent Cuban university), Che came from an upper-middle class family and was a medical doctor in Argentina in the 50s, Ho Chi Minh's dad was a scholar and a government official, etc.
i'm not saying we should focus on radicalizing petit-bourgeois people (we really shouldn't) but it's clear that some of them can be great comrades and we shouldn't shoo them off simply based off their class status.
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i'm white collar. my mental health has been absolutely fucked this past year. isolation and loneliness is making life so fucked. at times i feel like all i do is eat and sleep for the sole purpose of being able to work.
white collar is still working class so not sure wtf op is going for in his post
Leftists like OP don't have any understanding of class beyond class signifiers. It is no different from Republicans thinking you're working class cause you wear flannel and listen to country music.
This is true, PMC are working class but in practice those class signifiers often add up to having a drastically different life experience than your "typical" working class. A lot of PMC live no less of a cushy life than a lot of petite bougies and they often don't really have any immediate material reason to identify as the working class.
I might be talking out of my ass though, I welcome some 2nd coming of Marx theorylord putting me in my place.
this site is excessively antagonistic towards PMC/petit-bourgeois people and i don't really get it. yeah, a lot of PMC people are soulless ghouls but they are still workers and most great revolutionaries throughout history have been petit-bourgeois. just because they can afford a couple of luxury items doesn't make it so the labor and living conditions under capitalism are any more bearable.
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Mao's father was one of the wealthiest farmers in his town (sure, you could say he wasn't petit-bourgeois because China hadn't reached capitalist development, but he was still privileged socioeconomically), Fidel came from a relatively well off family (his father being Spanish and Fidel having studied Law in what probably is the most prominent Cuban university), Che came from an upper-middle class family and was a medical doctor in Argentina in the 50s, Ho Chi Minh's dad was a scholar and a government official, etc.
i'm not saying we should focus on radicalizing petit-bourgeois people (we really shouldn't) but it's clear that some of them can be great comrades and we shouldn't shoo them off simply based off their class status.
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