It completely depends on what's she's even talking about. Like I would defend truckers, are they unionizing? Or driving to the capital for some reactionary reason? Farmer too, are they standing up to the agribusiness or complaining about not being able to waste water in a desert?
Also a few dozen owner-operators managed to shut down the border against the wishes of literally the overwhelming majority of truckers who need to cross the border for work. Something that gets forgotten about the trucker protests is that truckers hated them more than the general population did, lol.
Most people most people work with in the West probably aren't worth defending, so at some point you gotta take a principled stand or just give up on leftism.
i mean we really can't be expecting literally everyone we organize with to have perfect socially progressive beliefs off the bat. solidarity and respect is built in the process of struggle.
that doesn't mean that openly reactionary movements of nominally working class people are "leftist" tho
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It completely depends on what's she's even talking about. Like I would defend truckers, are they unionizing? Or driving to the capital for some reactionary reason? Farmer too, are they standing up to the agribusiness or complaining about not being able to waste water in a desert?
Also a few dozen owner-operators managed to shut down the border against the wishes of literally the overwhelming majority of truckers who need to cross the border for work. Something that gets forgotten about the trucker protests is that truckers hated them more than the general population did, lol.
Most people most people work with in the West probably aren't worth defending, so at some point you gotta take a principled stand or just give up on leftism.
i mean we really can't be expecting literally everyone we organize with to have perfect socially progressive beliefs off the bat. solidarity and respect is built in the process of struggle.
that doesn't mean that openly reactionary movements of nominally working class people are "leftist" tho