I was disappointed yesterday to see that the most popular resources on class struggle are rightist talking points about how people need to stop spending their money on coffee and invest in their own business if they do not want to work for other people. This is completely naive and it ignores so many aspects of the class struggle that it is just liberal propaganda. Class struggle does not end inside of a factory or a workplace. When you go home, you go home to an accommodation you can barely afford, and pay for food and rent and whatever else you can with the poor wages given because the masses have no recourse when inflation hits. The politicians and the business owners tie their income to inflation but fail to do the same for the workers, which allows them to scalp their salaries when inflation inevitably gets high from government mismanagement. If you try to protest this, they throw tear gas at you or simply throw you in jail on some charges that are incoherent and invalid and usually have no correlation to anything you have actually ever done.

The bourgeois point of view is given to us almost exclusively in any mainstream media or news. We are not given viewpoints that come from our own interests because all of the major news outlets in the US are funded by billion dollar corporations that also lobby the government. Even if you never step foot in a factory, you will be forced to work either directly or indirectly for the bourgeois class to survive assuming you live on the grid. Even laws that you are forced to follow on threat of violence or police that can murder you with impunity exist because the bourgeois class wants them to exist in the way they currently do. The bourgeoisie decide everything about the political system and only occasionally yield when the pressure put on them by the masses exceeds what they can withstand.

Modern people are complacent compared to people of the previous eras. During times of slavery, people would escape into the forest and make encampments of maroons, who fought the state for freedom and lived in secrecy away from society and outside of capitalism. Nowadays, what is the modern equivalent of a maroon? A commune of people living off the grid? There are less and less possibilities available for those who desire to exist outside of capitalism, and even oppressed people have given up in a way, resigning themselves to living in a bourgeois society forever. Instead of seeking freedom from the system they just settle for comfort. They have forgotten class struggle and they refuse to follow it. The internet helps them learn liberation ideologies, but they cannot be forced to read or accept enlightenment. Many even choose to adopt ideologies that do not fix or would exacerbate the struggle between classes. They even defend the actions of regimes that have monarchies like The United Kingdom or liberal regimes like Canada, France, or The US.

Class Struggle inevitably leads to the dictatorship of the proletariat, but many people are so scared of paper tigers that they do not engage in any kind of praxis or even analysis of society for fear of becoming alienated. However under such a system existence is meaningless anyway and reduced to numbers and profit just to keep yourself alive. People think that socialism is an alternative to living under capitalism, but the real relationship between socialism and capitalism is the future vs. the past. Many of the same issues that led to the decline of historical societies such as rampant inequality, unequal rights, or even access to food and shelter are being reflected in the west. The people can build socialism or go extinct from starvation when the bourgeois class has accumulated all of the wealth and resources in society.