>>2483316>the proletariat isn't even that revolutionary a class, or effective when it is revolutionary.Neither were past oppressed classes. Slaves didn't overthrow slavery and the few slave uprisings that happened were crushed. Same with peasants on their own. The bourgeois were the real revolutionary power that changed the world. So then why expect the proles to be any different? Marx hoped the same weapons of bourgeois revolution could be adapted by the proles but it hasn't happened.
There was that gilded age industrialist who said he could pay one half of the workers to kill the other half. And that's still probably true. The only positive I see is that the capitalists seem to be getting dumber and more disconnected from reality over time. But with mass entertainment the same might be said of the proles.
I recall some old reactionary bloggers that tried to adopt the class views of antiquity when criticizing the left. They said of course workers aren't fit to lead, just like children aren't fit to lead the family. They can't develop skills of organization while struggling to support themselves, they're made to be followers. All leaders of old stable societies were either fighting aristocrats or holy bureaucrats; capitalism was hell because the merchants finally took over, and in ancient societies merchants were looked upon with derision and skepticism for good reason. The same could be said of "socialist states." The initial revolutionaries were the fighting aristocrats, then they ceded power to the bureaucrats of holy communism.
So I guess if the left wants to do anything they need to find some fighting aristos in the military or something who can be convinced some new holy bureaucrats could right the ship of the American civilization.
Or you could be like those "finance socialists" who think capitalist itself is slolwy wresting away capital from the capitalists and it making it more social through financial instruments, and the PMC will lead the charge of taking power away from the stupid outdated capitalists.