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?
Was this written before the 2020’s price gouging? Also will not de-dollarization decrease the purchasing power of the dollar, requiring more dollars to be paid to periphery workers? Also will the belt and road initiative’s not requiring neoliberal economic policies of governments that they deal with lead to make it easier to unionize in periphery nations?
Yep, and those statistics are from 2007. De-dollarization, the closing of US military bases, and the increasing share of world trade by the PRC, may eventually result in the “re-proletarianization” of some of euroamerikkka. But IMO revolution will happen in those countries last of all.
Definitely. We can already see some of the US’s soft-power failing in Latin America.