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Libertarian Syndicalism with Tom Wetzel

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The Working Class and the Bureaucratic Control Class

I like the approach that you take towards what you mean by working class when you're using that language. So different theorists over time have used different definitions for what working class means or whatever like the revolutionary agents might be. Can you talk a bit about who were the working classes? Okay sure. The thing about the working class is that within capitalism we don't have our own means to livelihood. We are forced to go out and seek jobs from employed. And then the second part of it is that we not only are forces to seek these jobs but forces submit to autocratic managerial regimes in capitalist society.

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