Reform UK is clearly winning over the minds of class unconscious workers. One of them is a young relative of mine. I’d love to have a talk in future, in a good setting, to help the lad out of this reactionary path he’s headed now.

It’s the typical stuff: immigrants committing sexual violence, stealing jobs, out breeding the “whites”, coming into the country illegally, given all the money, not working, benefit exploiting, being uncivilised savages etc.

I’ve heard the co-workers are enforcing this reactionary world view. Obviously I cannot barge in to the workplace, and change the environment, so I’m expecting this will take quite a bit longer than one afternoon tea lasts.

I believe he’ll be a fine lad, if he doesn’t fall any further, and finds a way out. I just feel I shouldn’t let him to dive deeper. There is already plenty of fascist propaganda to dispel.

How would you, dear online comrades, go about setting a young lumpen lad on the path to gain class consciousness?

PS. Title in the tune of Drunken Sailor.

  • darkernations@lemmygrad.ml
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    2 months ago

    Maybe consider the material conditions that may have helped you on your journey so those patterns could be recognised in others where appropriate, like I have said elsewhere our theory of change cannot be the serependity of knowledge.

    There’s a more exacting reason; to maximise one’s time on groups who would be most fruitful ie those in the west who would benefit from the fall of the USAmerican imperialism. Unless your anecdotal data could be replicated at scale then it isn’t much better than serependity; and the West isn’t getting more progressive suggesting the opposite. The “trust” that you are talking about are the material conditions that supercede the idealist conception of brainwashing.

    Offer your target a case where they will benefit in the short term from having your perspective and if you cannot make the material case for this then consider the class characteristics that make this challenging. It is in that journey that you will have a deeper class analysis and discover how you could become more successful.