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If everyone became class conscious, would that spark the Revolution or would people still feel "well, I know that I am being exploited but there is nothing that I can do about it"? (lemmygrad.ml)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Merely having class consciousness would not change the fact that the capitalist class owns the means of production, and the working class needs wages to subsist.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

I would argue we only need wages to subsist because there are so few of us with class conciousness. If everyone had it we could simply stop using money, and like grocery store workers, and farmers, and truck drivers just keep doing their jobs, but give the food out for free to people, and everyone could just stop paying rent, etc. Just stop participating in the capitalist system because there would be so few people left that would try to punish you for it. Thats why "everyone" being class conscious is a bit silly because its not a realistic thing to just happen overnight, and if it did then it would be like everyone suddenly agreed to overthrow the rich all at once. There wouldnt be a need for a struggle at that point really.