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.
Its also worth pointing out that its one of the most heavily subsidized industries, so long as they grow and produce what the lobbiests want for their adjacent industries.
Yes, absolutely. And when farmers don't own their land or equipment, those subsidies go to (1) that production and (2) the banks, much less so to the farmer or workers. A very large amount of subsidies in general go to banks, as everything is overleveredged, including personal finance. $1400 in COVID checks? The vast majority went to be servicing debt, i.e. paying the banks. Equivalent to cancelling debtby just having the gov pay the banks directly on your behalf.
Good extra detail, thanks. Its funny how people use this as a talking point "farmers are socialists!" Checkmate rednecks.
lol yeah. What thinking "socialism is when the government does stuff" does to a person.