r/behindthebastards • u/jpotion88 • 1d ago

Considering this guy was not traditionally left leaning…

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From his online footprint it seems like Luigi did not meet the mold many would have expected of a left wing revolutionary. Also considering I have been seeing a lot of “the right looks for allies, the left looks for rats”, I created a new group r/ClassConscious . It’s supposed to be a thread where we can share ideas/memes with people of different political beliefs to continue to solidify the idea of class consciousness in the minds of people who might just be waking up to it. Once people realize that one kind of oppression is wrong, they might realize that other types are wrong too (or at least that’s the idea). I can’t think of a better page to ask for help than the BtB audience. Being around here a while it seems like most people take a rational approach to the problems we face. I am not a content creator or very witty, or all that good at knowing what will grab people’s attention. So I ask you all to help me, with posting and bringing attention to the staggering wealth gap that has developed in our societies. It’s not something that matters just to the left… between Luigi and the elons bullshit, I think this has a fighting chance.

Please post anything you think will appeal to those not normally thinking about r/ClassConscious (ness) in the same way.

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u/DellSalami 1d ago

The political compass is a meme, but I do think it’s better to evaluate political ideology along two axes instead of just a line: Where you stand on the culture war, and where you stand on the class war. Even if they’re mostly related, it’s not a strict correlation. You don’t need to have progressive views on feminist or gay rights in order to want to depose the ruling class.

A lot of conservatives have class consciousness in them too, but it’s misdirected at the immigrants and the shadowy cabal globalist elites, instead of the very real capitalists who are right there. People are afraid of communists and socialists, though, so the conversations need to take a different approach.

I saw one comment on instagram that had me thinking: “This isn’t capitalism’s fault. Capitalism is fine. This is Cronyism.” Of course, that is natural endgame of unfettered capitalism, but I feel like cronyism is a really good word to criticize society without the linguistic baggage of capitalism and communism attached.

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u/jpotion88 1d ago

We saw this a lot in the early 1900s. People pitted against each other instead of the robber barons. But a lot of the people who started showing cultural acceptance did it through the common struggle against capital

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u/kumara_republic 1d ago

One of these robber barons, Jay Gould, is said to have notoriously remarked, "I can hire half the working class to kill the other half."

It took the ruinousness of 2 World Wars and a Great Depression to pull the OG robber barons down a few pegs, and hopefully with today's techbro robber barons it won't take something similarly ruinous to rein them in.

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u/jpotion88 1d ago

I wish I was hopefully that it wouldn’t