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SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day agoThe most important point of unity for the left is the economics. Political identity must be defined by being the proletariat first and foremost.
When you have people who break that, well their place is questioned.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Mmm hmmm. Yeah. Yes.
So an American proletariat is . . . Anyone who is limited by health insurance, student loans, and mortgage rates? Or is it something else?
We don’t really use the word proletariat, uh, at all. Ever.
SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
In a very basic sense (and this may very well be debated but to explain it simply I’ll say): anyone who doesn’t own their own labour, as in you work for someone else.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 1 day ago
That’s pretty much every liberal I know, yeah.
Well. I know some house painters I guess. They don’t work for someone else, per se.
SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Yeah being part of smth and identifying as smth are two separate things.
I’m a man, straight, brown, proletariat etc. The question is what part of that do I see as the most fundamental part of my identity or politics.