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.
I completely agree with you here. From numerous times that I have debated with people around me(including westerners and pro western Latam country men), the redsails articles are the most plausible explanation to their behavior. Also, within my marxist reading circles, we reached that same conclusions as redsails explained. Capitalism breed supremacism and false notions of superiority the working class for the sake of reducing solidarity among the oppressed.
Just as an example, in Mexico, we also see that working class people that harbor pro capitalist ideas are usually accepting the licencing of fallacious ideas such as: aspiracionismo(or “the poor is poor because they want to”).
People that have this pro capitalist want to feel superior to the less fortunate so they adopt behaviors that are basically anti solidarity and apathetic to the people that suffer under this inhumane capitalist system.
Very sad to see westerners in this thread actively trying to appeal to idealist notions of “brainwashing”. It feels that they are just seeking excuses and giving away their power to choose what to believe. Propaganda is not powerful and as we have seen in recent times it is actively losing power within the oppressed.
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