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Mobilize the homeless (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Speaking from experience here. They have enough time. Most of them are completely politically uninvolved, but the ones who do know about politics are very frequently conservative, so i'm not entirely sure how to go about this.

It would make a lot of sense for rightwingers to mobilize the homeless and it probably won't be as difficult considering homeless people get a huge amount of aid from churches.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 years ago (2 children)

This is why Marxists keep telling socialists to read theory and organize. I don't want to come down too hard on you, but to my knowledge a successful mass action of homeless people, part of the lumpenproletariat, has never been seen, let alone an actual revolution. This is why socialists organize around the workers. Workers can go on strike and the elite of society must eventually hear their demands. They have no interest when lumpen protest, because why would they? What can a mass action of the lumpenprol do even if it could happen?

Rightwingers don't mobilize lumpenprol because they know better

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 children)

lumpenprol

includes criminals. Criminals afaik have riots in prison to improve circumstances. Criminals are frequently (depending on region) recruited into firefighting forces. Mobilizing lumpenprol with other facets of society would help increase numbers.

Gandhi mobilized some very poor people successfully.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 years ago

No it doesn't include criminals, it can't. Because a criminal is someone who breaks the law, they can belong to any class. This includes ex big pharma exec Martin Shkreli, drug lords like Pablo Escobar, etc.