Every regional subreddit is full of:
- white American suburbanites pretending to be something they’re not
- highly privileged university students that have aligned their politics with social climbing
- PMC immigrants who “got theirs” and look down on everyone elsr
- (especially) second or third generation gusanos trying to pretend they represent their entire populations
It can be challenging to get someone to act directly against their material interests, sure, but there have already been unionized Anerican longshoremen that refused to transport military goods intended for Israel. It is possible to build at least that much consciousness among the rank-and-file and it is facilitated by strong contracts and education.
Working directly against the empire requires targeting other industries with different tactics IMO. The questions there should be like, “how do we make it so Boeing can only produce 5 JDAMs per month and 3 of them fail QA?”. Some of the ways to help that happen are too cool for me to elaborate on too much but let’s just call it direct action.
I do validate that the labor aristocracy logic is overall valid and that this is why capitalist propaganda is so effective on them. But that does not mean there are no cracks in the armor. We should also do our best to anticipate where productive social relations are going, and in my opinion, they are moving in the direction of proletarianization in the impeeial core. That should make our targets more fertile for organizing but also more dangerous.