/u/outwrangle before everything went to shit in 2020, /u/emma_lazarus for a while after that, now I’m all queermunist!
News @lemmy.world Biden considering executive action to close southern border, sources say
World News @lemmy.ml Israel orders more Gazans to flee, bombs areas where it sends them
News @lemmy.world ‘All men 16 years and above, raise your hands’: how al-Shifa raid unfolded
Ask Lemmygrad @lemmygrad.ml A recent argument forced me to see that "genocide" has been turned into an imprecise word, and I don't know what to do about that?
World News @lemmy.ml Did Israel bomb a civilian evacuation route in Gaza? | Financial Times
United States | News & Politics @lemmy.ml Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on How She’s Changed - The New York Times
Firefox @lemmy.ml What the hell is this horror show shit that keeps showing up in Pocket?



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."