• balsoft@lemmy.ml
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    15 days ago

    All political struggle is either bourgeois infighting (flip on the telly to see it), or class war (the ruling class doesn’t want you to think about it). The former can be fun to watch at times, the latter is the one which has any chance of improving your material conditions.

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        15 days ago

        Not sure what the gotcha is. Class struggle is a subset of political struggle, and it is the subset most relevant to you the worker, as outlined by my comment.

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          Marx said that every class struggle is a political struggle. This means that, if the proletarians and capitalists are waging an economic struggle against each other today, they will be compelled to wage a political struggle tomorrow and thus protect their respective class interests in a struggle that bears two forms. The capitalists have their particular business interests. And it is to protect these interests that their economic organisations exist. But in addition to their particular business interests, they also have common class interests, namely, to strengthen capitalism. And it is to protect these common interests that they must wage a political struggle and need a political party.

          It’s also a bit.

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            14 days ago

            The closest libs come to ever reading theory is asking a chatbot about a Monty Python sketch.