BREAK IT DOWN, BARNEY STYLE! or Why do so many internet Marxists dislike explaining their ideas in plain English that regular working class people can understand? one thing I don't get about a lot of internet Marxists if you want to win regular blue collar workers to support communist ideas... why exactly do some of you insist on using graduate school jargon? that's counterproductive why not say what you mean in PLAIN ENGLISH? instead of talking about "the proletariat" - why not say "the working class"? instead of "bourgeoisie" why not say "capitalists" or "businesspeople'? instead of calling for "proletarian internationalism" why not say 'world wide worker solidarity"? instead of "dictatorship of the proletariat" why not say "working class democracy"? you can explain the Labor Theory of Value using 4th grade reading level terminology - here, watch this: workers have to sell their abi...
Joe Burns’ Class Struggle Unionism - a review by Marian Swerdlow from AGAINST THE CURRENT: Joe Burns’ Class Struggle Unionism – Against the Current