• Venia Silente@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    12 days ago

    Sailors are working class

    I get the vibe but. Can really the military be considered working class? They act against it all the time, nationally or internationally, judicially or extrajudicially, they betray all the principles (that’s how you get into the military in the first place).

    If it is hit it is a HUGE escalation

    On the side of the US. They are the ones marching a ship to Iran in the first place. We know who the real invaders are, in all these modern wars. There’s no need to pin the blame on the victims.

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      Yes enlisted sailors are working class. They are trading their labor for a wage. Draftees are even worse, literal slaves who do not know why they are fighting each other and only wish to go home, as in the Great War that led to the Potemkin incident.

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        12 days ago

        By this logic, strikebreakers/cops are working class. Also draftees always have a choice, prison time in your home country is better than death in another one, they are categorically not enslaved (enslaved soldiers are not a military strategy) or threatened with the death penalty. Israeli draftees are still settlers and are fully guilty of the crimes they commit.

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          Yes police are working class. With no police to enforce the property laws of the bourgeois, private property wouldn’t exist. Why else do you think “defund the police” was a thing? It wasn’t random. Gosh, nobody has ever heard of the bourgeois fooling working class into working against their class interests before. They lack class consciousness.

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            My understanding is that they’re workers in the same way managers and soldiers are workers. Their interests can align with other workers under special circumstances, but under pre-revolutionary conditions their interests are perfectly aligned with the ruling class. They’re conscious of their own material interests, which usually exist in contradiction with the interests of the rest of the working class. Managers and soldiers and cops don’t union bust because they lack class consciousness, they do it because that’s what they’re paid to do.

            Hence the rule: “Always pay your guys. If you stop paying your guys, they’re no longer your guys.”

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        Draftees are even worse, literal slaves who do not know why they are fighting each other and only wish to go home,

        They know they can just drop their weapons and go home. It’s not like the generals are setting foot on the front to keep them on a leash there.