If You Want Working Class Solidarity

It is up to those of us with privilege to stop drinking from the poisoned chalice that gives us some small advantage over the rest of our class, at the expense of dividing us from our comrades, at the expense of the real power which we can only build when we come together.  We cannot come together as a class while working class women are told by their comrades to accept violence and inferior status for the sake of revolution, to show solidarity with those who ill treat us for the sake of revolution.  We cannot come together as a class standing on the backs of our black and brown comrades.  We cannot come together as a class if we treat our gay, lesbian, bisexual, and so on comrades as deviants or tokens.  We cannot come together as a class if our transgender comrades are denied the right to take a fucking piss safely.  We cannot come together as a class if our spaces are inaccessible to our disabled comrades.  

You want working class solidarity?  You want the revolution?  Show that solidarity to your women comrades, your comrades of color, your LGBTQ comrades, your disabled comrades, show us that you will fight for us and not just yourself and we will fight at your side.  Show it through your actions and not through empty words.  

We can only have real solidarity when we stand beside our comrades and not above them.

I just don’t get primitivists, like if you wanna go live in the woods, go live in the woods, and stop writing anti-civilization manifestos.  No other truly leftist tendency is going to stop you, but the rest of us like pooping indoors and would prefer to continue to do so.  Have fun.

Also as a sex worker and former domestic worker, you know what’s FUCKED about being a live in domestic?

That “almost but not quite” a part of the family dynamic that goes on.  You’re like a dog to them, they expect to have bought your loyalty and love entirely, while to them you are replaceable if you become inconvenient. 

You wanna talk about exploitive paid intimacy, let’s talk about your nanny, let’s talk about your maid.

Also like if we had motivation problems post revolution after we eliminate currency surely we could look at behavioral psych and offer a variety of solutions to help people do what they want to get done.

Like if people can become addicted to validation from your fitbit, surely we can find a way to make assembling widgets for the good of humanity as entertaining as candycrush.

Okay so my dream is an algorithm

that tells us where goods and services are needed by society by monitoring and prioritizing requests in real time, as well as monitoring “purchase” data (having people swipe an ID card and enter an ID when “shopping” online and so on).  Like all that data gathered and put to use for good rather than evil… 

Like seriously, imagine an economy run based on wants and needs, prioritized by data gathered about human happiness and life expectancy and shit, the thing tells us when we need more workers in whatever sectors because of demand, predicts what products people want so you don’t end up with shortages historically associated with planned economies.

Like I believe capitalism is an IT problem and also like imagine all those algorithms used to show you ads, used to curate your netflix and your facebook and everything used to benefit humanity rather than to shill crap?

I mean we have the ability to gather and interpret immense IMMENSE amounts of data, can you imagine what we could do with a records of everyone’s consumption of products and services?  Of everyone’s requests?  

Imagine the society we could build with all that data used for good, maximizing human happiness would be so easily within our grasp.