Is Britain’s working class too weak to carry out a revolution? - The Communist
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A popular myth is that the British working class is too weak to carry out a revolution. Yet by examining the concrete facts, we find working class Britons are highly proletarianised and have taken the path of struggle many times in the past years. Will Collins examines this question further.
  • CircaV@lemmy.caEnglish
    152·
    13 days ago

    LOL working class voted for Brexit, twice. How’s that going for you UK?

    Edit: Working class also voted for Thatcher, who annihilated unions.

  • Obinice@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    13 days ago

    I agree with most of these points, but this one stood out as nonsense:

    Keir Starmer’s government is now probably the most hated in living memory.

    Besides the fact that the likes of Thatcher’s government is still very much within living memory, even if we just look at just the recent past 20 years… The current Labour government are more hated than our recent Tory government, that we had for years and became so reviled that there was talk it may collapse for good? …Really?

    I don’t buy that at all. Sure, there are plenty of things to be mad at Starmer and the current lot about, I agree, but I see far less hatred for them than I did the likes of Cameron, Theresa May, and Boris Johnson, and their ilk. Faaaaar less.

    Anyway, great read besides that bizarrely inaccurate statement, thanks for sharing :-)

    • Olap@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      13 days ago

      Yes, history will not be kind to Starmer. But he won’t be Liz fucking Truss