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If everyone became class conscious, would that spark the Revolution or would people still feel "well, I know that I am being exploited but there is nothing that I can do about it"? (lemmygrad.ml)

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[–] lil_tank@hexbear.net 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

That would even include cops

I think we had a struggle session about that, cops benefit from bourgeois extraction by protecting it, therefore they are not workers. If the cops became class conscious they would defend the bourgeoisie to their last breath because without capitalism they would have lose their way of life, i.e., bullying people. They'd have to learn to actually help them which a lot of them (probably not all of course) would find unappealing

[–] Xiisadaddy@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 2 months ago

Right now in the real world yes thats true. In this hypothetical where everyone is class conscious thats not the case tho. Its not a realistic hypothetical tho. But the systems the capitalists use to reward those cops for protecting them would entirely collapse, and the cops if they were class conscious would know this, and switch sides immediately since their material conditions would be better for it.