This is the same reason why professional athletes paid millions are often still comrades. They still don't own the means of production, and are still getting exploited. Important caveat on this however is that cops aren't proles, because their relationship to the means of production is that they protect them.
Important caveat on this however is that cops aren’t proles, because their relationship to the means of production is that they protect them.
True, and you could just as easily miss that if you’re just basing your analysis on income.
Cops and Military are interesting, because they generally get pulled out of the working class into those positions. Troops however, generally return to the working class after a few years in the military. They have closer ties to that class, and historically tend to split/rebel more than domestic police in revolutionary situations.
Troops however, generally return to the working class after a few years in the military. They have closer ties to that class, and historically tend to split/rebel more than domestic police in revolutionary situations.
True and many of them only go into the military to begin with, cause there are no jobs where they come from. If you live in a rural southern small town, your options are limited entirely to working minimum wage your entire life at a Dollar store or McDonalds, or trying to "get out" of that hell hole, and the military offers a solution as a way to get out.
This is such an ass backwards position that's promoted by Rablibs and Idpol obsessed morons. Cops are 100% working class if someone like LeBron is also considered "working class".
Edit: Pro Athletes who make a show for social justice are just SuccDems, like Killer Mike or celebrities who went hard for Bernie but are also landlords/business owners, etc. They are vaguely on the "good side", but from a pure class analysis, they are NOT working class.
Cops are working class, but also class traitors. During a revolution, some working class people will be counter-revolutionary. Cops just sold out earlier.
This is the same reason why professional athletes paid millions are often still comrades. They still don't own the means of production, and are still getting exploited. Important caveat on this however is that cops aren't proles, because their relationship to the means of production is that they protect them.
True, and you could just as easily miss that if you’re just basing your analysis on income.
Cops and Military are interesting, because they generally get pulled out of the working class into those positions. Troops however, generally return to the working class after a few years in the military. They have closer ties to that class, and historically tend to split/rebel more than domestic police in revolutionary situations.
True and many of them only go into the military to begin with, cause there are no jobs where they come from. If you live in a rural southern small town, your options are limited entirely to working minimum wage your entire life at a Dollar store or McDonalds, or trying to "get out" of that hell hole, and the military offers a solution as a way to get out.
This is such an ass backwards position that's promoted by Rablibs and Idpol obsessed morons. Cops are 100% working class if someone like LeBron is also considered "working class".
Edit: Pro Athletes who make a show for social justice are just SuccDems, like Killer Mike or celebrities who went hard for Bernie but are also landlords/business owners, etc. They are vaguely on the "good side", but from a pure class analysis, they are NOT working class.
Cops are working class, but also class traitors. During a revolution, some working class people will be counter-revolutionary. Cops just sold out earlier.