No line needs to be drawn right now -- there are no revolutionary tribunals, no truth and reconciliation commissions, and there's not even a large leftist party that needs to define what membership means. This is not a very helpful framework at the moment.
Right now the most useful framework is something like (1) people who won't even listen, (2) people who will listen but aren't moving left soon, and (3) people who will listen and become leftists pretty quick. I'm sure some Google workers are in Group 3, and probably are fair amount (if not most) are in Group 2. There's no reason to write those people off, and we can't afford to write people off too easily in general.
I can see the idea that some jobs are incompatible with being a serious leftist. But Google is way too big and way too removed from the most direct harms of capitalism to make a blanket statement about Google employees.
We should also be careful about making litmus tests for leftism that require enormous life changes (e.g., quit your nice job and find something else) solely for the sake of ideological purity. Someone quitting their job at Google doesn't bring us any closer to socialism. If anything, stuff like the unionization attempts at Google (which wouldn't be possible without at least proto-leftists) moves the ball forward.
No line needs to be drawn right now -- there are no revolutionary tribunals, no truth and reconciliation commissions, and there's not even a large leftist party that needs to define what membership means. This is not a very helpful framework at the moment.
Right now the most useful framework is something like (1) people who won't even listen, (2) people who will listen but aren't moving left soon, and (3) people who will listen and become leftists pretty quick. I'm sure some Google workers are in Group 3, and probably are fair amount (if not most) are in Group 2. There's no reason to write those people off, and we can't afford to write people off too easily in general.
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I can see the idea that some jobs are incompatible with being a serious leftist. But Google is way too big and way too removed from the most direct harms of capitalism to make a blanket statement about Google employees.
We should also be careful about making litmus tests for leftism that require enormous life changes (e.g., quit your nice job and find something else) solely for the sake of ideological purity. Someone quitting their job at Google doesn't bring us any closer to socialism. If anything, stuff like the unionization attempts at Google (which wouldn't be possible without at least proto-leftists) moves the ball forward.