>>2303628It's not impossible for someone with bourgeois class interests to have a proletarian conscious, but it's rare, and heavily disincentivised by class interests. Marxists like to say that human nature doesn't exist, and on a metaphysical level, they're absolutely correct. But I don't think it's wrong to say that, as a rule, if you place different people in the same material conditions, most of them are going to act pretty similarly. The more you benefit from the system as it stands, the less likely you're going to be to want to change it. I can say personally that I didn't fully appreciate the class struggle until I was a part of it. My adult life has consisted to me bouncing back and forth between prole and lumpen, and it's made me come to realize both how much I stand to lose at any given moment, and that the bourgeois controls your life at a much deeper, much more insidious level than you think it does. When I was a kid, I took for granted that a job and a home were things you automatically got as an adult. Now that I am an adult, I know better.
In my experience, most bourgeois who participate in revolutionary activity are either petite bourgeois who want small-business friendly demsocism, or cynical opertunists hopeing to escape into the vangard and become heads of state capitalism.
I'm not saying that entrepreneurial activities are always bad, but if you can start anything beyond a side hustle, your class interests are un-proletarian.
>>2303773From what I understand, he was just an unusually empathetic man.