change my view
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/238912
If you’ve ever looked at how rightwing movements operate, it appears they throw a lot of money around. And because of the world we live in, it gets results, ex the canadian trucker protest having basically all the same amenities as a festival, nearly a theme park. Advertising budget. Funding institutions/youtube channels to spread bs.
I think the first thing a leftist should do is, in order:
- get a good enough income for themself. This can include mutual aid or even things like food banks, depending on your philosophy.
1b) study some finance, ex the finance diet and use tricks from financial sources to boost income. This includes stock market/saving for retirement. I can elaborate later if u want on why savings are important. Including trying to use tax loop holes for our advantage. The rightwingers get an edge from this, we need to even the playing field
take care of other important things like enough exercise, good diet, dating
actual left things. But starting with making sure other lefties are well off financially. I’m not sure how to do this and not create capitalists. But technically if you have 0.0001% of stocks, you (the worker) owns 0.0001% of the means of production of that company. A good approach might be starting a worker co-op, where you give people a good wage and recruit youngins right out of high school. That way they learn what a just economic system is and when they branch of to other companies, they will hopefully expect just treatment and be more ready to push for a union in their new workplace.
Exactly. The proletariat isn’t going to de-proletarianize itself just by ‘being good citizens’, otherwise they would have already risen out of the wealth inequality built into the system. OP is trying to defeat liberalism with liberalism.
What the proletariat has which the bourgeoise don’t have is numbers. The bottom rungs of society are larger than even the labor aristocracy. So appealing to a broad base (not by adopting lib/fash aesthetics as so many leftists seem to desire) means spreading the load out among those greater numbers. A small amount of effort/resources from a large number of people can equal the efforts of a small number of very rich people. A very basic succdem analogy is the Bernie Sanders campaign where the average donation was $27. A more extreme version would be the liberation of Vietnam where a great mass of people in extreme poverty beat the odds of the imperial machine. Ho Chi Minh and Sanders achieved this by appealing to people’s material interests and not through aesthetics or big self-interested donors.