https://twitter.com/lysenko_weed/status/1545160259878232065

Reminder that farmers in western/imperial core countries are rich land owners who owns all the machinery and relies on exploiting migrant labors; also known as kulaks. And the protest itself are mostly driven by environmentally destructive livestock farmers.

Meanwhile the truckers are bourgeois as they owns their means of production (truck) and they're protesting on the behalf of corporate interest fighting against unprofitable Covid measures.

edit: alright, the truck part is a very terrible take and that's on me

Also fuck you if you think service workers are not working class.

  • Orannis62 [ze/hir]
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    2 years ago

    The truckers in the convoy were mostly owner-operators

    • JoeByeThen [he/him, they/them]
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      2 years ago

      That's still a bit much to say they own their means of production. It's more like a mechanic that owns their own tools; their profit is pretty low, they're making money off their own labor, and they're still dependent on the infrastructure of a much more profitable organization.

      They are, however, reactionary suckers.

      • Ideology [she/her]
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        2 years ago

        They're more like long-distance uber drivers.

        Edit: just read further down and several other people just said this, lol

      • Orannis62 [ze/hir]
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        2 years ago

        That's all fair, but there is still a difference in class character among truckers between owner-operators and others.

        Not enough for owner-operators to actually be bourgeios but it's still worth pointing out.

    • RNAi [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Yeah, fine, anyone able to not work for so much time for a brain dead "goal" can't really be working class I guess