sgtlion [any]

I very much disagree still. Yes, proles can be sufficiently bribed to support bourgeois rule, and it makes them arses, and it makes them reactionary, but it doesn’t change their material interest, which is basically the main point of class analysis.

I find this labour aristocracy point to typically be pushed by people who think it’s a modern phenomenon, when it really isn’t. Marx saw colonialism and the countries’ worth of bribed, reactionary proles it made, but that really isn’t important to the point he was making with the class model.

Even wealthy proles would substantially and materially benefit from the overhaul capitalism. Thus, class consciousness would and should reasonably lead them to support socialism. That is the point.

Of course I Rage Against him, he’s me

Now write “I will not believe a word the Daily Heil publishes.” on the blackboard 100 times.

Even though we don’t use it on this instance, I do find the up vote and down vote counts the most interesting and transparent