Social classes are as exploited as Victorinos telenovelas, as measured by state planning
agencies as DANE in his scheme of income of the economically active and we see taking us
through the city from south to north. Let us give an abstract definition and simple:
Social classes are those groups of people who share their financial situation (income,
working forms, relating to the means of production) differentiated from other groups,
similar social and cultural conditions. This specific relationship where we can identify a
class and differentiated from other causes anyone to compare a woman selling gum with a
landowner paisa Bogot?, establishing their differences. But not only are the identities of
classes, there are also race, sex, gender, creed, region, politics, sometimes more and
sometimes less important than the class for people who experience them and to the
criticism that the analyzed .
Class struggle is an intersubjective reality we see, eat and hear all the time
Social classes are as exploited as Victorinos telenovelas, as measured by state planning
agencies as DANE in his scheme of income of the economically active and we see taking us
through the city from south to north. Let us give an abstract definition and simple:
Social classes are those groups of people who share their financial situation (income,
working forms, relating to the means of production) differentiated from other groups,
similar social and cultural conditions. This specific relationship where we can identify a
class and differentiated from other causes anyone to compare a woman selling gum with a
landowner paisa Bogot?, establishing their differences. But not only are the identities of
classes, there are also race, sex, gender, creed, region, politics, sometimes more and
sometimes less important than the class for people who experience them and to the
criticism that the analyzed .
Social classes enhanced by the development of the capitalist system, in classical terms
the bourgeoisie and the proletariat, and so there are promoters assume cultural industries
such as book collection with its target audience polls, they organize their banking
systems scales loans and when we eat lunch at different restaurants located in the city
center where there are places that are technicians, secretaries and messengers, and
another where they heads and administrators. Roughly we could say that the bourgeoisie is
a social class rich, linked to trade and possessed of the means of production and
distribution, and the proletariat is a poor social class, linked to work and deprived of
the means of production and distribution, forced to sell their labor to labor on these.
This specificity allows us to say that the styling of the rice plantations of the coast is
different from the human resources manager of a call center in Bucaramanga. But not only
are these classes capitalists, there are other pre-capitalist classes, such as peasant or
landowner, other social sectors as intellectuals or students, and other economic levels as
that differentiate a construction worker Pacific walking to work in a coal worker power in
the south to be in your car.
The antagonism between the different social classes enhanced or not there is also
capitalism and traditional folklore takes stories like Prince and the Pauper, the world's
police cordon on their poor areas and we hear when we hear a conversation outside bus in
an employee complaining about his salary. We could say in very basic lines that antagonism
exists as conflict over the control of the labor force and the means of production and
distribution, between social classes with different class interests. This antagonism
allows us to differentiate between what you do with your time and money for their
production of cane cutter with an oilman Valle de los Llanos. But not only the antagonism
between social classes such as occurs also between sexes or races, not always is the main
motivation of people as could be the case of a farmer who supports Uribe against land
reform or a leftist banker defending the rise in wages, not always expressed in the same
way tardy differentiating a dump truck driver out of laziness or a shareholders' meeting
closed textile of any worker.
Antagonism is continuous struggle becomes. Class struggle there then. It is an
intersubjective phenomenon, meaning that different people perceive, and global, as is
experienced at different times and regions. We would say that can exist on three levels:
1) most of the time is expressed as an ironic commentary against the working pattern as
reluctance on the job, as single verbal fight on the salary, ie as low level voltage
underground and wear, 2) at times is expressed as coordination of requests of different
actresses, as challenging times and standards as strike-lockout, ie half as open conflict
intensity and movement and 3) sometimes presented as trade organization, such as violence
and expropriation, and war declared high intensity and positions. That is more a lengthy
and ongoing fight a short war and episodic, but sometimes the first takes the form of the
second.
Social classes are a magma that allows movement but leaves mark
Bakunin was born in a home to the Tsarist aristocracy with thousands of servants at their
disposal, fought most of her adult life as a bohemian revolutionary squandered his wealth
in the cause of liberation of the working poor and died surrounded by workers and
artisans. Tulio Cuevas was born in Colombia in exchange for a home worker, climb as
gangsterism union leader serving class collaboration into a pattern and died among
entrepreneurs and other union bureaucrats like him. Obviously the social class to which
they belonged to two men change throughout their life in a clear demonstration that the
classes are a closed system but not tight and that allow for social mobility. Both
believed fiercely in their life plans and changed their materials under the same
conditions. However it is important to understand that classes are never alone, and always
interact with other identities conflictively as sex, gender, race or nationality.
However it is clear that their class origin was important in projecting a certain
activities (going to study philosophy in the case of Bakunin, work in the case of Cuevas)
and determines certain aspects of his adult life. This shows that classes can not imprison
granite blocks inside but neither crystalline streams which enter and leave at will, but
rather a kind of burning magma and shapes our bodies and personal projects. Exploring an
everyday example: A university intellectual who comes from a working family starts
behaving like a bourgeois and acquires some of their habits can be distinguished from a
bourgeois anyone, ranging from distinctive physical features to his speech. However if
their habits persist and secured, after some time many of its distinguishing features lose
their strength and they can hide, without however disappearing.
In the capitalist classes are open social structure in which we signed before birth, as
evidenced by the large uneven nutrition, housing and labor expectant families and even
after death, as shown by the prosperous business death and burial for the poor or rich.
However certain conditions and with a lot of will, ie life projects, some but not all can
make the difference, why not sign up to stop the logic of class structure. A worker who
wastes his life accumulating works and achieves social climber or a businesswoman gives
dolcevitta and breaks down to the level of the workers, not people for outside or above
classes but those that best show their operation polarizing, real situations that should
not let us forget that the system works precisely because while working to burst the vast
majority of workers do not escape from their condition and never even make the vast
majority of bourgeois either.
The class struggle is a dual relationship, polarizing and complex
The specific classes exist only as part of a broader package, which identifies itself when
it is able to differentiate itself from the other, and these relationships are marked by
differentiation antagonism. So rather than separate islands are strings relational
structures. And they only live through concrete individual subject, with many
intersections identity using a metaphor that naturalistic painting animals of many colors.
So it's working for their youth identities and musical tastes are related and share with
bourgeois habits. And for being bourgeois religious seamlessly blend with the workers.
Looking from the set there are multiple classes, with different strata and factions using
the above example could be the basis of the primary colors, mix, and interaction which
gives life to the secondary colors. In our society we may identify as the impoverished and
dominated women farmers, workers and smallholders, and the wealthy ruling to landowners,
aristocrats and bourgeois, and a nebulous middle level workers crossing the wealthy ,
medium and small bourgeois owners. Detailing could point to the existence of different
strata within classes that differentiate the bank workers with minimum wage earnings of 3
own their home and car, industrial workers wages gains two leased homes but own their
vehicles and workers bearing construction 1 minimum wage with no car and rented homes, or
even of bourgeois factions as those with investments primarily in industry ANDI grouped in
agriculture unionized in the SAC, in livestock FEDEGAN organized and commercially United
FENALCO.
Finally this set could be divided into two great classes-driven capitalist economy, the
bourgeoisie possessed of wealth and means of production and distribution that integrate
himself to landowners and aristocrats and the proletariat generator of wealth and media
activator production and distribution, which would integrate within itself to rural and
small owners, in a color spectrum of highs and lows, shot through the middle, in the
middle of a dual relationship that separates working capital, and a polarizing
relationship the faces. So there are white, black and gray. But the key here is that not
only are these three tones, but a variety of colors that prevail in their combinations and
interactions. That there is a chromatic scale and organize around it does not negate the
rainbow colors. That there are two poles in the class struggle does not deny the existence
of many layers and sectors however are organized according to the blocks.
The class struggle can be a liberation struggle
Simplifying we could say that the history of human societies hierarchical, that is not the
only nor the most durable type of human societies has been accompanied by the class
struggle, which has never been the only one, and sometimes many not the main factor of
common life. For this reason the classes have been combined with other types of
differentiation, exclusion and social division of labor such as sex, clan, race or estate
and have long been marginalized integrated but not necessarily the same . Will modern
capitalist society which emphasize the class rule, diluting the weight of the
establishment or the clan, and reinforcing the weight of sex or race, sometimes prevail
over it, integrate or attach the same. Will the capitalist production relations which
diluted the aristocrats and landowners within the bourgeoisie without so remove them, and
will do the same with the farmers and smallholders within the proletariat.
Anarchism was born of the class struggle and other social struggles, and they must sense,
has set out to destroy the social classes and other hierarchical relationships of
oppression. This has no choice but to propose that fight politically oppressed, ie daily
and structurally against oppression to which they are subject, in the case of social
classes that workers do against the class system. And in these struggles whites in the
racial struggles of men in sex, heterosexuals in gender, the inhabitants of rich countries
on national and bourgeois in class, can play an important role renouncing press this is
giving up the material practices that allow (that his wife do everything in the home or be
enriched by the work of others), siding with the oppressed and helping in the effort of
these for their emancipation.
The fight with the pole oppressed class struggle, i.e. workers, can be a liberation
struggle that the anarchists should look and work together with other social and other
struggles against other oppressions, that more often if integrate with each other, as
shown in the case of the double exploitation of women workers or double discrimination of
the black oppressed. In it the proletarian and peasant, both workers, along with including
smallholders, may advance as a strengthening process block oppressed classes, ie
strengthening the fight against hegemonic block and antagonistic classes, that can carry
contesting control of society to the state and the bourgeoisie in a revolutionary rupture
process
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* Who Are We
The Libertarian Way Group V?a Libre is a political revolutionary libertarian communist
tendency which acts in the city of Bogot?, Colombia. The organization, born in June 2010,
aims to bring perspective to anarchist communist class struggle and the struggles of other
oppressed social sectors in the region and the world.
In that sense, Via Libre both inherited and is part of the tradition of social anarchism
and organized globally, and the rich and diverse history of labor struggles and popular in
Colombia, Latin America and the World.
For that reason promotes social practices as the horizontal, classism, direct action and
grassroots organizing among l @ s oppressed, in order to generate social self-management
processes and building workers' power and move towards the Popular Social Revolution sign
anticapitalist and in this way to a free and equal society.
The Group operates in sectors such as the worker, the student, the youth and the
neighborhood, with an awareness of social and stimulating basic work skills, and the joint
development of these sectors and their convergence and unification working class and
popular struggle.
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