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"a cop breaking up a strike is not producing value for the capitalist class"?
Is there a typo here? Seems to me like that's exactly what they're doing.
"This is a vastly different relationship of production than that of workers.", too. It would read better as, "This is a vastly different relationship WITH production than that of workers."
Might just be someone whose second language is English?
When I clock in at work, my labor directly generates profit - I do a task, company gets money for it.
A cop breaking up a strike is defending the system. The cop is not directly employed by a private parent company (usually). Unless the company is being directly paid by a customer, directly for this cop’s action, and the cop is directly paid a wage by said company, the relationship is different.
There is parallel benefit between cops and capitalists, but one does not have direct authority over the other.
So then would all public employees not be workers? That seems a strange position...
Wording here is terrible. But in the end so is the message. This is some tanki slop
The cops are workers in the sense that they are disenfranchised from benefiting from the use of their time. To say that they do not create value in the same way a wage worker does befuddles the damning reality of the laborers loss in benefiting from the value they have created.
Cops absolutely create value to a capital society. Just not to the working class. But they damn sure don't benefit from the value they have created.
Also, fuck the police.
Absolutely. We don't need to do mental gymnastics to make reality fit with Marxian nonsense. It's completely possible to have different factions of workers with different interests in the real world. Cops are just one example, but there are others, albeit the conflicts tend to be more narrow.