Forgive me if I'm just overthinking or thinking about nothing, I'm just wondering how educated should a worker be to be class conscious?
How I came to thinking was just pondering on people who are gullible to other people's opinions, and the ethics of ethical education? Maybe just nonsense meta stuff, but what exactly can people do, and how can we teach people to be self-aware enough to listen to what they truly believe in. Especially when it comes to adolescents who are surrounded by information dumping news sources and ideas from all sides, and any one source just has to be charismatic/bold enough for it to stick in someone's head for long term
I mean the latter, because you have to be self aware and have core principles of empathy/love and solidarity to even realize why class consciousness and Marxist education is needed
I don't think this true at all. If communism required everyone to behave according to core principles of empathy and love then communism wouldn't work.
Marx's analysis does not rely at all on empathy/love. What is needed is to recognize that Marx's analysis shows that capitalist society will collapse and when it does it can only do 3 things: obliterate humanity, recreate capitalism, proceed to communism. That's it. If you leave capitalism where it is, it risks exploding and destroying your way of life. In fact, most of your problems come from capitalism.
That's all self interested analysis. None of that requires core principles beyond taking care of your needs.