Saw another post about this post pusch period being a good time to spread some of that sweet class consciousness to the confused and frightened libs in our lives. What’s your best metaphor to explain class struggle and why it must be undertaken by all of us?

I wrote a long effort-post in c:writing on an analogy I felt was pretty good: untying a hose in a dark room to get a drink of water. You can read all of it here:

Part 1 https://hexbear.net/post/68740

Part 2 https://hexbear.net/post/68741

Part 3 https://hexbear.net/post/68742

Let me know if you have an even better one or if you have critiques on mine. Hope to hear some good stuff! Keep pushing those libs in your life till it’s nothing but comrades. o7

Edit: I feel I have been playing fast and lose with the difference between metaphor and analogy, and that, is pretty cringe. Self cancelling immediately.

  • Multihedra [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    I have two analogies I’ve been working on.

    A) We see how police treat black and brown, and otherwise marginalized people more generally, in the US. The US is the de facto world police, and treat black/brown/marginalized countries the same way.

    B) We all know that we work harder than our bosses but get paid much less (this difference is even more stark with C-suite turds). The US is the de facto boss of the world economy, which functions the same way: as a country, the US siphons off exorbitant wealth for itself while people in poorer, more productive countries get little in return

    • LaBellaLotta [any]
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      4 years ago

      I like where you’re heads at. It’s fascinating the way in which we are surrounded by microcosms of the greater struggle the working people of the world are trying to engage in. I think if you told both of those as two parallel hypothetical narratives that could really bring the metaphor to life.

  • WhatAnOddUsername [any]
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    4 years ago

    Not sure if this is the kind of thing you have in mind, but I often think about this cartoon whenever I see someone claiming that rich people deserve to be rich and poor people deserve to be poor.

    • LaBellaLotta [any]
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      4 years ago

      I really like that as a visual metaphor. Now we just need to start schooling right?

  • FnordPrefect [comrade/them, he/him]
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    4 years ago

    At some point I intend to write the following into a storybook form:

    A miller is trying to maximize the output from a waterwheel on his property. He calls in a scientist to further this aim. The scientist takes a snapshot and studies it.

    "I've determined that the most energy is produced when the water lands in this particular section (the section that happened to have water hitting it in the snapshot). We should take measures to ensure that as much water as possible lands on that section!"

    So, the miller bolts the wheel in place. Obviously, the machinery is completely non-productive, but the scientist said so, so the miller does more and more elaborate modifications to the wheel. Eventually a sufficiently large downpour breaks all the unnatural apparatus off and the water is distributed evenly over the wheel and everything is better again.