I always feel like I'm hanging out in a punk/hardcore music scene (various anarchist groups, psl to some extent) or with lame improv nerds (dsa). I don't see either of these groups connecting with very many working class people. This is obviously a huge problem but (at least where I am) there is very little attempt to organize or recruit people making minimum wage, fast food workers, service industry, manual laborers etc. I mean shouldn't this be the main priority right now? I don't know I'm just venting but I'm baffled by how bad at organizing these groups are. Do they really just like being this cliquey group that is hard to get into and that's what really matters?

    • OptimusPrimeRib [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      I think I talked about this before when the forum was having a struggle session about the south. A lot of people equate working class with working poor and try to shoehorn themselves in the working poor's struggles just because they have a boss or they aren't PMC. Also when did people start thinking that lumpenprole = neet? Living off of your parents in a suburb does not make someone a lump.

      Edit: needed to add more words.