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Why did Socialists and Anarchists in the United States stop calling Class cucks "Mr. Block"? it sounds like a rude symbol that can be used more politely in conversation without sounding like a 4chan autist
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Why did Socialists and Anarchists in the United States stop calling Class cucks "Mr. Block"? it sounds like a rude symbol that can be used more politely in conversation without sounding like a 4chan autist
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i'm actually gonna start using this thanks
I didn't know this, but I definitely think we should start meming it into the mainstream like we did with Porky.
Because the communist left got kicked out of all union organizing during the Cold War.
Mr. Block? What are the origins of that term? Is it for working class people that don't support unions or labor activity (blacklegs, scabs, freebooters and the like)? Non-sequitur, but I wonder if the bad guys in Gumby were a reference to this.
I've seen Dr. Wolff harp on that point several times recently; Dr. Wolff claimed that a large part of the erosion of the power of labor movements in the U.S. is because of their rejection of natural leftist allies (e.g. us), whereas their enemies freely allied with social conservatives and today increasing with libs. In his opinion unions need to stop being reactionary bitches and realise that their staunched supporters, socs comms and ans, are not to be feared but embraced. I mean, fuck, in my area several of the unions frequently support conservative candidates around election time. Y'know, the very people that are destroying them.
OK, having perused wikipedia a bit, I am now an expert and will gladly educate you all /s. Anyway, Mr. Block is basically what we would call a classcuck today: he's working class, but he thinks like a rich man. He's subservient to power, he has faith that class doesn't matter before the law in a democratic country, he mindlessly supports the party leadership without thinking for himself. Something interesting to note is that there is a comic strip where he is holding a sign supporting the SPA. I guess at the time there was a good deal of crossover in IWW and SPA membership, and there were bitter disagreements between the syndicalist vs socialist factions within the SPA. So the comic artist, a Wobbly, portrayed Br. Block as mindlessly supporting the party leaders rather than syndicalism. Besides this little historical artifact, it seems that Mr. Block is a worthy symbol of classcuckery. I say we meme him as much as we can! btw, this is a pretty good comic on bourgeois attempts to use wedge issues like race to drive class allies apart.
Would blocky suffice?
Sounds good to me.