comradecalzone

The "go outside and organize" side.

Intelligentsia maintain a portion of the means of reproduction of society. Scholars, professors, researchers and the like. It's important that bourgeois ideas and constructs are reproduced and reinforced to uphold capitalism, and their work requires a higher level of skill. Thus, they are historically better compensated and enjoy a higher level of privilege. Still generally workers - they don't own the means of production.

The petite bourgeoisie on the other hand do own the means of production, and do exploit labor to make profit, but operate at a smaller scale than the large bourgeoisie and their labor remains essential to their operations. Small businesses and the like.

Both groups, along with highly technically skilled workers (labor aristocracy) have similar interests in that they have more to benefit from collaboration with large bourgeoisie and imperialist forces than most workers do. This isn't a constant, however, as the contradictions of capitalism sharpen.

The way I see it: as the rate of profit falls, these groups are proletarianized as finance and monopoly capital tries to pad their margins to compensate. As material conditions change, so do class interests and relationships.

The importance of class relationships under particular material conditions is exemplified by the PRC's flag: 5 stars. 4 for the peasantry, proletariat, petite bourgeoisie, and national bourgeoisie. One large star for the Communist Party that united them.

I don't mean "idealist" as an arbitrary pejorative. I'm talking about idealism vs materialism as a way of understanding and changing the world. I'm not sure how far along you are in your journey as a Marxist - are you familiar with historical and dialectical materialism?

Do you live in the Imperial Core? I know you have "commie" in your username - do you consider yourself a Marxist?

Your question was about the feisability of mass moments. Mass movements coalesce due to material interests, are made possible through class consciousness, and are fueled by the blood and sweat of the people willing to put in the work to fight for unity.

I don't know if "these people" you speak of are the reactionaries or absolutely everyone in the Imperial Core, but idealist notions of "paying for your sins" aren't what make these movements happen.

To build unity of the working class. Yes, yes, lots of Democrats and liberalism amongst organizers. But these protests are comprised of workers who's class consciousness is growing. Spread literature, invite workers to your org's events, make connections with other orgs; build a united fighting working class.

While I appreciate his thoughts on MMT, I am generally wary of his analysis; 1Dime has previously defined "Petite Bourgeoisie" as "high income earners," which is a red flag for me.