Comrade Mann
I felt like necroing this

Comrade Kotka
"They are do not identify themselves with the proletariat and will not see the problems of the proletariat as their own."

I think this is just a problem of wording that needs to be fixed... after all, people in areas of service could easily see the problems of the proletariat as their own with a little convincing. It's not very hard to feel exploited at all in some areas of 'service' (hospitality, I'm looking at you).


There was a word for these people and I had forgotten it but seeing now that I remember it I'll explain it here.

They don't identify with the Proletariat because a large portion of these workers fit into the category of the Labour Aristocracy. Thus there is no way they can identify with the proletariat (unless the fall out of being in the Labour Aristocracy

This is wrong. The labour aristocracy in interwar Germany was almost completely communist because they had the money and time to read, and learn and engage in propaganda and could save up in case there was a strike.

The rest of the proletariat being unable to do that was not.

So blanket statements like 'labour aristocracy will never identify with the proetariat' are just plain false.