My post was too long so I had to post here: https://pastes.io/07p5nd9dxc
Edit: first correction to the paste, our trans community is represented far above the general population. Around 11% of our community is trans, while in the world only 1% of people are. I also only gave absolute numbers for some reason in the paste so here’s the percentage points: 10% trans women, 1% trans men, 7.7% nonbinary.
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Labor aristocracy are proletariat still, just ones that are paid just well enough to have their interests (generally) align with the capitalists. For example, people who identify as “middle class” are labor aristocracy.
To learn more, I’d start with the source: Lenin’s Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism. In this original context it’s used to explain how companies use superprofits extracted from exploited colonies to pay off the working class in the developed world enough to blunt class consciousness at home and suppress solidarity for workers abroad.
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Yeah it’s perfectly fine, labour aristocracy isn’t really a class in the Marxist sense but more of a shorthand to explain why some proletariat align themselves with the bourgeoisie instead of their actual class interests; they receive a share of the surplus value in some way, and this creates false consciousness.
We have this page on PW but it was written by the patsoc (purged) ex-admin: https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Labor_aristocracy
Honestly, the term “labor aristocracy” has a lot of flaws in the overall concept.
It’s like the term “lumpenproletariat” in that sense.
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