A new manifesto by the nonprofit American Compass capably identifies the problems facing the working class but stumbles on the solutions—especially labor unions.
No shit. They never have been. The only thing they are serious about is empowering the capitalist classes.
No shit.
Conservatism exists to keep the status quo and protect the wealthy elites.
Even though in America our benefits are lousy those were fought for and people died for that stuff.
-8 hour work day -Weekends -12 week unpaid maternity leave -Child Labor Laws (rip) -OSHA -Unions
And civil liberties. -Ending legal segregation -Voting Rights Act -Civil Rights Act -Women’s Voting Rights -End of Slavery -and everything else I’m forgetting.
Modern protests haven’t worked in a long time. I believe the reason is there are the people who want to reform the system. Then there are the militant groups fighting for the same thing but in a far more radical way want to burn the system to the ground. In history we had both groups. Today we do not have the militant flank. We only have the reformists. There is no militant radical group that makes the reformist option palatable. There is no threat to the bourgeois.
We must somehow organize a cohesive United Labor Movement regardless of political affiliation. A movement that reminds the elites that we have the power. Frankly they need to be terrified of us. Make them fear us. If they do not enact legislation to better our lives then they need to know we will go after them.
I don’t know how or where todo this.
This is just my arm chair former redditor criticism of the system while not actually taking action.
I think the pivot to the right in the white working class is overstated. These people overwhelmingly live vastly more comfortable existences than minorities of the same status. These people were always right wing socially, they can afford to vote on social issues (broadly, speaking). When you use college education as the dividing line, you obscure the dynamics.