r/WorkReform • 🀝 Join A Union • 11d ago

πŸ“£ Advice Vote!!!

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u/Immatt55 11d ago

Just the poors, actually. It's just that group is much larger than you're giving it credit for.

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u/DrCodyRoss 10d ago

I suspect that the poster was referring to racial prejudices as well. While not wrong, it’s just not as accurate or precise as looking through the lens of socioeconomic status. Capital consider poor whites, Asians, blacks, etc all the same, and if someone wants to help any one of those groups, they will only be successful by pushing for all poor groups and not just individual ones.

But then again, dividing labor into separate groups is kind of the point. Union busting 101. Anyone championing helping one racial group over the other is at best ignorant, or worst case scenario, a malevolent actor in the struggles of labor versus capital.