By class traitor I don't mean a fed or infiltrator. You don't have to go out of your way to denounce leftist ideas or stop the left. You just have to have class interests directly in conflict with workers and the poor. You can let your factory unionize, and take less money. But would you choose to be that factory owner if it meant your current situation improved significantly?

I don't know what I would choose because I have no hopes of owning capital. I would love to quit my job and be free to just own stuff and make money off it. But then I would have to reckon that with my beliefs. I guess you could just accept you can't be a leftist and volunteer for the wall should the day come.

  • TreadOnMe [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    If you get caught, you're either killed, or they work you for pennies in the prison system which competes with my labor in the industrial sector. Makes it way more difficult to organize when they can just scab in prisoners to a job site. The only way you can radicalize enough people to make a difference in labor is through solidarity, it's tough to make people think locally, let alone internationally. Show em they can change one thing, and hopefully, they will try to change other things. I'm not gonna die for hexbear.com, and my work is already difficult enough without getting paid nothing for it.

    Look, I get the sentiment, it's just incredibly unrealistic. I have communist ideals because I firmly believe it is in my, and the world's, best interest, but I don't see what my personal martyrdom does the movement, unless you think it will become some sort of Christian-like ritual lol. Maybe when I'm like 50, I can pull a Willem Van Spronson, but at this point I'm just hoping the bastards at the top keep shooting themselves in the foot internationally. Maybe that makes me a 'bad' leftist, but I'm working with what I got here.