>>17849111
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>The western proletariat was "bought off" as it were with Social Democracy in the post-WW2 years, which does a hell of a lot to squelch any class consciousness by tricking a large enough segment of the proletariat into thinking they've been allowed into the bourgeois (they haven't) through their "merit" that they don't want to rock the boat and get impoverished along with "those" people. Capitalism, and especially the Neoliberalism variant of it, however are unsustainable, and this state of affairs has been rapidly collapsing throughout the west, as the segment of the proletariat who previously thought they had been allowed into the club are now finding out that no, they were proles all along and the bourgeois never considered them as anything more than useful idiots to be betrayed and thrown away the minute they believed labor defeated. We are thus now seeing the western proletariat, albeit very slowly, starting to rediscover class consciousness as their material conditions deteriorate.
>>17849111

Because people are realizing that envious, divisive, greedy people who think class/inequality/capitalism is a problem like these idiots ARE the basic problem.