Post #4938647 · Elektrine

2026-09-22 14:42 UTC

Managerial positions are not classes. You are confusing the Marxist understanding of class, which is based on ownership of the means of production and distribution, with a more anarchist association of class with hierarchy. Administrative labor is proletarian in nature if the administrator owns just as much as the rest of the class. Their increased power is a privledge that comes from the working class as a whole, and can be taken away in the form of recall elections. This is how it generally works in socialist countries.

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@Nalivai@lemmy.world 2026-09-25 16:12

That’s the fun part. Theory of “power coming from people” sounds fun, until the people actually give someone a power. The second a person has any power over the group, - literal, actual power, giving orders and people being expected to follow it, no matter how specific those orders are, - that person starts being corrupted by such power. And when administrator starts craving more power, they can use instruments they have (media being one of such instruments) to do so. And no amount of “but power comes from the people” can stop it. That’s why I wrote, several times, and I will repeat it again until you stop ignoring it, that administrators that start as proletarians of the people, doing regular administrative work, end up being in control and transforming into rulers, if they have powers to do so, if there is no equally motivated institutions to prevent it. This is how it generally works in socialist countries. Name one

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