The best avenue for agitation is unionism precisely because workers have an implicit understanding of their own relationship to their labor that specifically crashes against the shores of capitalist propaganda, eroding them over time. I don’t care how reactionary or uneducated or stubborn someone is; if they’ve worked for a wage, if they’ve experienced poverty, they will finish your sentences as you’re explaining things. Some areas, the propaganda just feels like common sense to them. But their labor? The counterpropaganda becomes the common sense. And then your job is collectivize their implicit understanding.
The best avenue for agitation is unionism precisely because workers have an implicit understanding of their own relationship to their labor that specifically crashes against the shores of capitalist propaganda, eroding them over time. I don’t care how reactionary or uneducated or stubborn someone is; if they’ve worked for a wage, if they’ve experienced poverty, they will finish your sentences as you’re explaining things. Some areas, the propaganda just feels like common sense to them. But their labor? The counterpropaganda becomes the common sense. And then your job is collectivize their implicit understanding.
What a poetic way to phrase it. Thanks, I might use the crashing waves and erosion metaphor if ever the opportunity arises.
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Thanks for the clarification, comrade. Hard agree on the religious communism, too.