Thinking about trying to organize a campaign on this. On one hand it would help a lot of people and probably be about as radical as electoralism gets. On the other it would basically pacify a front of the class struggle, perhaps the most vital front, labor, without fundementally changing the relationship between the classes.
For clarity we'd be talking about a 5 or 6 dollar an hour increase over a two year period.
Given that no major political party in the US or Europe would currently be willing to do anything like this, if you managed to be successful you'd presumably already have begun to build a much stronger working class movement than exists in those places today
:this: To get something like this actually enacted you'd have to organize a working class movement as radical as the labor movement of the 20's
You can't just go straight to revolution, you have to go through the dialectical process of negation. People aren't going to want to go straight to violent political action because ya know they might fucking die. They're going to want to start with the form of politics most familiar to them, electoralism, and then when that process proves non-viable for achieving their goals they'll move on to the next form and so on. Organization is key here because it allows the power of the working class to persist across the transformational process. There are plenty of protest movements geared toward electoralism that, when that avenue proves futile, just disband because they weren't really organized and couldn't be redirected to other political formations. So to circle back to the original question, you can organize a labor movement around pursuing better wages and then it's up to capital about whether they'll acquiesce to worker demands or push them further towards revolution by refusing to give in
They’re going to want to start with the form of politics most familiar to them, electoralism, and then when that process proves non-viable for achieving their goals they’ll move on to the next form and so on.
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ignore the word "pegging" comrades, this is a serious discussion :volcel-judge:
On the other it would basically pacify a front of the class struggle, perhaps the most vital front, labor, without fundementally changing the relationship between the classes.
This is pretty much the logic of accelerationism
If you're a leftist you should want as much of a "release" as possible and you should be working for it at all times.
I'm not sure that would pacify a class struggle, but rather, create an organized class struggle
people realising that they can fight together and get money out of rich people's hands to improve their own lives would not pacify labor. The real issue would be that they might go for social fascism instead of socialism, but if you're doing electoralism that's just what happens. This would be a good thing to wake up class consciousness and give workers enough time and money to figure out how bad things are and what they can do.
On the other it would basically pacify a front of the class struggle, perhaps the most vital front, labor, without fundementally changing the relationship between the classes.
But wouldn't the fact that the Democrats would fight this tooth and nail be useful to point out the contradictions between the political elites who talk about supporting the working classes and the policies they actually support?
Seems like this would be a good thing...
