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This is a legit concern, how to feel Holla Forums ? Any of you ever felt this "guilt"?

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Sounds like you're suffering from a combination of depression and alienation

Welcome to the club

STOP IT

I'm also a college student.

I started freelancing remotely (mostly writing gigs, atm) so I feel like it's really helped my class consciousness because freelancing is when you really get to the see the full extent of the labor market and its race to the bottom in action. Would strongly recommend, it's a pretty easy way to make some extra cash without having to sacrifice very much study time.

listen buddy growing up helping your parents pay bills once you start working as a teenager and working a menial construction job isnt very fun
id rather be in your position

But you actually got life skills and used your adolescence for what it's for (i.e., the transition from childhood to adulthood).

I, on the other hand, am a 23 year old man child who has literally never had a job or any adult experiences. I'd much rather be in your shoes.

Why didn’t you take a job during the summer at collage.

W H Y

Adult experiences are the exact same as childhood experiences. You're creating a false dichotomy. Whatever job you get, its going to be repetitive and boring as all hell, and won't really require you to do anything you don't know how to do. You're in a much/ better place learning than you would be in a useless job.

The goal of socialism is the negation of the proletariat as a class and the creation of a classless society, not to sit around the concept in a circle, jerking off onto it and whispering about how great it is. I do not care how little you've worked, let me tell you, you should be fucking enjoying it. Work under capitalism is not fun, it is not a growing experience that you add to your person from, it is menial, often demeaning and exploitative.

Where I am, companies are now expecting retail workers to do constant manual labour, including moving boxes which should (before the laws were overturned) legally be moved by machines due to their weight, by hand. It's cheaper just to have your checkout chicks do everything than just hiring more staff. It's still magnitudes less exhausting than construction, but personally, I would say it isn't worth the switch, especially considering the pay borders on or dips down to unlivable.

Don't it fucking sucks you're lucky OP just be thankful for the good things in your life and hope things get better for all of us

It's not a valid concern. There's a witty put down for everyone, from homeless people, to waitresses, to union leaders and disgruntled bourgeoisie.

Leftist aesthetics are cool and that's all that matters.

because it pays more than those entry level retail or office jobs and i got the training for construction equipment already

why don't you get off 8ch and ask successful people how to succeed?

volunteer for a charity that will give you a chance to see the conditions of the proletariat
something like working at a food bank would be ideal

Why don't you, you cocksucker.

Yes, I used to, then I realized, right wingers never feel guilty for anything. So I don't either. I stopped appealing to bullshit "respectability politics" and faced the reality that I was dealing with, and that's that right wingers would gladly put me to death irrespective of what the law says.

On the same note, read The Art Of War and then consider everything a right winger has ever said to you, and whether they ever "apologized" for it.

They never do. They deserve a taste of their own medicine and I just stopped giving them remorse when I fully abandoned all liberal pretenses. Part of this was shedding muh pacificism and affirming my natural right to life with a pro-self defense stance.

On the "guilt" thing:

Just enjoy life. Don't get caught up with the "revolutionary" stereotype that says you need to be just like Che and take some critical role in building a mass movement. Just find something that plays a little part, and chip away at it. In my opinion, that is far better than just becoming a full-on lifestylist and inevitably burning out after two years, retreating to the same patterns the Boomers did after they dropped their "hippie" phase in the 60s.

Everyone's situation is different. I think, to a degree, right wingers are correct when they speak of "personal responsibility." Try to get as good a paying job as you can. Use that money for leftist causes if at all possible. Put down real roots in your community.

This kind of stuff, IMHO, is what spreads "real" class consciousness. Being embedded in the public consciousness and maintaining an active role in society aside from just being an "outside agitator" does a lot to change people's minds.

It's a lot harder to talk shit about "antifa" when they see you as their neighbor, coworker, etc.

Oh, and learn martial arts, lift weights, and buy a gun if you haven't already

Just my 2 cents brah

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On the other hand, as a counterpoint, the idea of having "roots" is a catch-22.

You have to always be wary of becoming everything you hate.

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For me it's even simpler than that. While I think there can be arguments for imprisoning truly excellent dissidents during a revolution, in a first world country, just calling out someone's bullshit racism head-on can go quite a long way.

And I think, to a degree, this is why doxxing is so popular. Shame, even though it is kind of a "pussy" way to confront people, is effective and relatively harmless.

Maybe it's just a part of getting old, too, but I've slowly become more vocal when people are clearly spouting bullshit. I still hide my power level quite a bit, but my filter sometimes gets turned off because the propaganda (am burger) is so thick at times. You just can't help but call out the "free market" dogma that is so easily spewed as truth here.

I've got them all fooled

The right hand been so anti-justice for so long that this kind of thinking permeates (long think like this too)

apply for an on-campus job.

Usually 6 shots of tequila makes me feel good again don't do this more than once a week for the love of God though

How did you get into it? This is exactly what I'm looking for right now.

You can learn about things without actually experiencing them. If you are well read you can become a critic or better yet a clerk who writes policy papers.

You don't have to have had a shitty exploitative job with a shitty boss to be a leftist, op. It doesn't make you grow up, it doesn't make you an adult, being an adult doesn't exist. I've had two shitty jobs. If anything it just acts as an anchor and solidifies your views.

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It is perfectly fine as long as you don't LARP as a revolutionary. Just be a normal college student, until you have a practical opportunity to implement (and correct) your ideas.

After college I plan to go to trade school. I like working with my hands and shit and fell in love with welding/machining in highschool.

Let's see OP. Your parents aren't property owners and neither are you. You're a proletarian. You're gonna be one of the more well-educated proletarians, but you'll still be destined to spend most of your life under capitalism as a wage labourer. is right.

tell your family to fuck off during the summer and work or intern instead, its better

Not being funny but if this bothers you so much just get a part time job. This isn't really a Holla Forums concern so much as it just your concern.

Kill yourself. That would be both a nice start and a neat conclusion

I feel you so hard OP. Just replace middle class with lower class and thid is me.

Amber got you covered fam thebaffler.com/your-sorry-ass/the-sad-song-of-privilege-frost

I'm 24 and I still live with my parents. They don't even charge me rent!
Don't get too worked up over what other people might think about you. The only thing that matters is what you do to bring about socialism.

Oh no, oh jeez, I left the meme flag on.
Please take my post seriously.

take it one step further and join army (or not if you're burger or in risk of being deployed to some shithole).

OP, I'm pretty.much in the exact same position other than being a year younger and some experience w8th part time jobs. Even then none of that to me has ever really felt like real labor.

He'll, while my direct family I live with aren't bourgoise, I worked at my aunt's insurance office off the books and I felt like shit.

The way I see it it's only temporary and I'm just gonna leave a more educated proof doing computer science work under some porky after I graduate so hey.