There’s a talking point being passed around by certain self-identified marxists and socialists, dismissing the truckers who are resisting vaccine mandates because they are not “workers” but “owner-operators” who, since they “own” their own trucks are actually small capitalists and therefore not worthy of class solidarity.
Feb 17, 2022Liked by Jim Kavanagh (The Polemicist)
Thank you so much for this, Jim! It has been truly maddening to see so many former comrades in struggle, going back decades, who have been so, so "off" on the Covid shots, the mandates, and the Canadian trucker protests. It's like they wouldn't recognize a working class uprising if it ran over them with a semi... If people don't recognize the incredible danger screaming at us in the latest move of the Trudeau government to seize financial assets from anyone it deems guilty of "wrongthink," I don't know what will wake them up. As someone commented on another substack recently, it's as if these "leftists" have gone from pink to Pinkerton in one lifetime.
Feb 17, 2022Liked by Jim Kavanagh (The Polemicist)
Thank you for this post. It's been maddening to read so many tweets from so-called leftists parroting the corporate media, demonizing the truckers as a bunch of right-wing extremists, being funded by billionaires, etc. How can they not recognize the reality of actual 21st century working people, a diverse group of people who in the case of this movement are, for the first time in a very long time, united against the public/private partnership that's driving us toward a biosecurity regime by and for the oligarchy?
Why on earth conflate communists with socialists, let alone democratic socialists who believe in freedom with compassion and in lifting all boats. I’m pretty sure those truckers are not incapable of appreciating that.
Thank you so much for this, Jim! It has been truly maddening to see so many former comrades in struggle, going back decades, who have been so, so "off" on the Covid shots, the mandates, and the Canadian trucker protests. It's like they wouldn't recognize a working class uprising if it ran over them with a semi... If people don't recognize the incredible danger screaming at us in the latest move of the Trudeau government to seize financial assets from anyone it deems guilty of "wrongthink," I don't know what will wake them up. As someone commented on another substack recently, it's as if these "leftists" have gone from pink to Pinkerton in one lifetime.
Thank you for this post. It's been maddening to read so many tweets from so-called leftists parroting the corporate media, demonizing the truckers as a bunch of right-wing extremists, being funded by billionaires, etc. How can they not recognize the reality of actual 21st century working people, a diverse group of people who in the case of this movement are, for the first time in a very long time, united against the public/private partnership that's driving us toward a biosecurity regime by and for the oligarchy?
Why on earth conflate communists with socialists, let alone democratic socialists who believe in freedom with compassion and in lifting all boats. I’m pretty sure those truckers are not incapable of appreciating that.
You might want to take a look at this conversation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRGuu_AKQNA