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?
Yea, but in order to do that, you’ll need to work with the people of that class to integrate them into productive industries. Also the more of them that see our interests as their interests, means that we’ll have to deal with fewer reactionaries. Doing so also means adding more people with lumpen backgrounds to assimilate other lumpens to become proles. It is good to have fewer people to fight against us. I don’t think you need to wait till full communism to work with them. Somewhere in the socialism stage, it is good to integrate them into the economy.
Fair point, I don’t disagree. But that’s not what lil tank was talking about.