VOX POPULI

[D: Okay, I decided to put a section up that has anonymous first-person accounts from working people and why anarchism interests them. To me, this is really important, because so much of the radical left seems to think working people are clueless, reactionary idiots, so I'm putting this up to refute them. Leftists need to come off it and abandon their intellectual elitism, if anarchism's to become a reality. If you want to say your piece, send it to ME.]

Working Class Introspective

What I was trying to do was point out to these people who rabbit on about the 'Working Class' is that they are not a label, but real people with there own agendas and needs. They aren't just there so the "anarchists' can use them as cannon fodder for the class war.

I grew up in a WC family I went to WC schools for the most part, I work in a WC job with other WC people. I live and breathe WC. They aren't a monolithic group. If we are to be anarchists we must gain their informed consent before plunging them into something they aren't asking for.

I have on board prejudices and cultural baggage from my upbringing and a violent temprement. I can see these things as undesirable and do my best to keep them under control. I am in effect trying to free myself from these oppressive behaviours.

A lot of people who are WC or any other class for that matter don't even see this in themselves and therefore are trapped in oppressive behaviours themselves and trap others with them. Just because someone is oppressed doesn't mean they are automatically better than their oppressors.

For me the WC is not the demon they are thought of by the other classes, nor are they the oppressed saints/martyrs, that some anarchists seem to think they are. They are real people and we must treat them as real people. Otherwise we just another group of bolsheviks.

Don't worry about me seeing the point of your criticism, that came through clearly. I appreciate it that's partly why I put this up in the first place, the other points being waking up others to the humanity of the WC and shitstirring.

Class Warrior

Having worked over 8 years in the Working Class, 4 years in the U.S. Army, and another 8 years in an office job, I see a repeating pattern of exploitation by a small group of idiots who have coercive power and pass that power to new idiots when they decide to retire or get a new job bossing people around. They have absolutely convinced themselves that the status quo is perfectly fine ("the system works") and that they will defend it to the last and in exchange receive a portion of the spoils of capitalist theft. They are morally committed to the status quo and why should they not be when they are rewarded from birth for obedience, subservience and every form of subterfuge and perversion required to maintain their "good life."

Given this as the nature of the "Middle Class" or whatever other name you want to assign the servants of the very rich who keep them in power by acting as the "Capos" of Capitalism ("Capos" were the people who acted as cops in the Nazi concentration camps and in exchange didn't end up in the oven!), I cannot imagine these people forsaking the "moral" foundations of the system at their own expense (By "morality" I mean the manner in which they arrange their thinking to rationalize screwing over others when they can benefit from it materially). It is a contradiction. It would require them to act against their own interests. I would not trust them if they claimed they were prepared to do so. If we are trying to "convince" anyone, it should be the producers in society and not the parasites who would like nothing better than to keep bleeding the rest of us. Given our limited resources, appealing to our "masters" to confess their capitalist sins and accept Bakunin as their personal savior appears to me to be high farce!

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