no, I'm not talking about trying to recruit them to our side. the farthest they'd be willing to go is social democracy, in any case - look at the DSA. I'm saying our organizations have allies in petit-bourgeois organizations because they're trying to lobby governments to do the same things. conversely, if we don't work together on these shared aims, they'll win benefits for themselves, at our expense. this is only true for a very short period of time.
that's the nice thing about these kinds of focused, shared goals. you don't have to trust them, you can rely on theory and analysis of the material conditions to predict their behavior -- what they're predisposed to do -- then use those predilections to our benefit. at no point do you need to believe that they want anything but to come for your throat. but they want their class position to survive more.
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no, I'm not talking about trying to recruit them to our side. the farthest they'd be willing to go is social democracy, in any case - look at the DSA. I'm saying our organizations have allies in petit-bourgeois organizations because they're trying to lobby governments to do the same things. conversely, if we don't work together on these shared aims, they'll win benefits for themselves, at our expense. this is only true for a very short period of time.
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that's the nice thing about these kinds of focused, shared goals. you don't have to trust them, you can rely on theory and analysis of the material conditions to predict their behavior -- what they're predisposed to do -- then use those predilections to our benefit. at no point do you need to believe that they want anything but to come for your throat. but they want their class position to survive more.