The “blue collar = bad” stuff comes from Western Marxoids who think...
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Apr 05, 2025
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The “blue collar = bad” stuff comes from Western Marxoids who think that productive labor is itself dehumanizing & that “creative work” is inherently liberatory of the subjectivity of the worker etc. That’s why you have them obsessed with “workplace democracy” & whatnot— the notion that what is really bad about class conflict is “the alienation of being a mere employee”— as in, the fact of being “employed” as a tool in some sense rather than “collaborating voluntarily & creatively” etc. It ties in with the notion that a “first world country” primarily employs FIRE sector labor & that “third world countries” primarily employ productive workers. The constant refrain is “under Communism you will work in a sweatshop” — & you notice the leftoids they say “under Communism I will design the uniforms”— on a class level, “intellectuals” want to eschew productive labor entirely
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@CDMorlock Do you know where "Blue collar = bad" came from? Maybe the transatlantic intelligence agencies attempting to undermine American revolutionary potential?
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Very rare are the Western communists who sat “I want Communism so I can have a good paying job in the productive sector of the economy”— where are the leftists demanding the single income household from entry level productive labor as in the 1950s? Nowhere. That’s a “right wing” talking point etc
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If you say for instance “I am only concerned with the lot of productive laborers. I don’t care if waiters get taxed on their tips or not. It’s irrelevant to the real economy. I want more productive labor with higher wages & lower costs of living.” This is “bigoted” against “other proletarians(?)”. This is “dividing workers.” This is imperiling the coalition of interests that support the Democrats.
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The UAW supports the tariffs. The UAW president supports this. He endorsed Kamala in 2024. Why? He spoke at the DNC national convention in 2024. He authorized the 2023 UAW strike. Why is he now supporting Trump’s tariffs?
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Shouldn’t he be concerned about the economy? About the stock market? That’s not his job. He’s only concerned with getting more members & benefits for UAW members.
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So imagine if you ran a Party that only concerned itself with productive labor’s interests— would it win? What if it won without the consent of the unproductive “proletarians” so-called? What if it won without the consent of any “professional intellectuals” or NGO employees?
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Well we have to include them too right? We have to also include the concerns of the lumpen too, right? It’s not True Communism without protections for sex workers & fentanyl addicts— we have to center marginalized communities, whatever their role in the economy is.
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If you ask the average leftoid what alienation from the means of production means, they will describe ultimately how you don’t get to “be creative” while working. I remember a TA at NYU describing an insufferable other TA who would say “I have a privileged position because my labor is not alienated.”
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As if to say “My job is not merely a job, it is my identity”— this is what they say is bad about blue collar labor “aren’t you so much more than a trucker?” — as if all productive labor is a result of bad luck, of “not making it,” a failure to become fully actualized as an unproductive “dream accomplisher”
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There is no respect for such work amongst the intellectual leftoids, there is PITY. “Oh poor you working the bad kind of job. We’ll automate that for you & you can work a real job, like being a social worker or a therapist.”
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Oh poor you Mister Truck driver. Wouldn’t you be happier as a Truck Life Youtuber? Then your labor would not be alienated.