Re: [Marxism] Skewering "Fahrenheit 9/11"

[Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx>]

Scotlive@xxxxxxx wrote:
>
> Carrol
>
> What about workers who break picket lines, who scab,
> for example?
>

Simple. They are scabs. Most scabs are working class.

Consciousness is developed in struggle. It isn't a passive attribute
such as height or weight or the color of the pretty glass marbles in the
jar.

You are falling for the mechanical sociological habit of thinking of
class as merely pigeonholes in which to classify individuals.

If I say X is a rabbit, you know a lot about X.

If I say X is a member of the working class you know nothing whatever
useful about him/her. (If I say X is a capitalist, you almost certainly
-- but not certainly -- know a lot about him/her. In every revolution
some members of the ruling class come over to the revolutionary  class.
E.g. Chou En Lai.)

We are not sorting laundry into baskets.

Which sectors and strata & individuals of the working class will develop
class consciousness through struggle simply can't be known in advance.

Carrol


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