Patsocs tend to want to focus on productive labor and suggest working with students, lumpen proletarians and the average service worker is inefficient. I’ve heard the defense of this that blue-collar workers, truckers, etc are the ones who actually have the power to shut stuff down, and are therefore the most powerful for revolution and so on. Is that a valid line of argument? Is it a good strategy to focus on organizing those workers?
There’s not a lot of productive labour left in the imperial core compared to the Global South. I think it’s valid to say that focusing on the workers who have more leverage against bourgeois control (especially logistics) is more effective than focusing on other work that’s less integral (e.g. the average Silicon Valley job), as long as they don’t have stubborn petit bourgeois aspirations. On the other hand, if you can organize enough people for a local or national armed revolution, it doesn’t necessarily matter what their jobs are or if they even have jobs