The Lumpen Proletariat in the US, operating as it does through a ‘false consciousness’, falsely believes that it is ‘standing up’ to the bourgeoisie (which is limited to notions of the distant and faceless ‘Authorities’, but seldom the business structures around the workers), whilst in effect generating bourgeois mirroring structures within its own ranks, that are slightly out of focus, prone to illogical or erroneous thinking, and tending toward theistic theology.
Tag: US working class
A Tribute to Comrade Jack Jersawitz (1934-2012)
I have always been of the opinion that African-Americans are the most Revolutionary aspect of the US working class due to their history of the experience of enhanced oppression under capitalism: