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7 days agoI’m so surrounded by treatlerites that I’ve come to sound like an accelerationist. They’re all labor aristocrats and petty-bourgeois wannabes, so they’re not representative of the average person, but they’re so full of themselves and callous towards people having it worse than them, either at home or abroad in imperialized countries, that I just can’t fathom any other way for them to open up to left-wing ideas without their imperial treats being cut off first (although I’m sure the vast majority of them will end up going mask-off, as usual, and publicly embracing islamophobic/xenophobic/queerphobic discourse)
I work an office job in what I’d say is an indefensible industry and I fucking hate it and my ghoulish coworkers. No chance organizing this workplace, class consciousness is completely absent and people are too busy enjoying their treats to care about anything else or see society collapsing around them. Even if they were to organize, they’d do it to gain a bigger share of the imperial pie, not due to any sort of activism.
More than working in a deeply unethical job, I think the reason to avoid these jobs is because you can’t effect any positive change here, there’s too much resistance, these will likely be the last holdouts of capitalism when the tide finally turns left in the West. Go somewhere else where you can organize a workplace and find people who are more receptive to Marxist thought.