any communist who comes to the conclusion that one of the worst things about capitalism is that people are divided and cant do a heckin collectivism have completely opposite politics to me. if you have even the slightest bit of self respect it's obvious that organized or centralized power is the biggest threat to your autonomy, stop talking about how the working class whatever the fuck that's supposed to mean is being divided
if you value your autonomy the goal is obvious, make yourself and others unable to be captured by the state, it literally cannot function if it needs to expend significant energy to make even of a fraction of it's population work how it wants. normal slavery as a system collapsed because it's an incredibly costly endeavor to try to more or less completely reign in labour by force, but every "revolutionary" thinks that the best revolutionary subject is a troop but for a red flag instead of something that is fundamentally hostile to being used by power because they dont want to dismantle what exists at all. they look at the state with jealousy and resentment, not as something to be destroyed but something to be subverted and captured for their own grand plans. in doing so they provide a pathway back into the power structure for all the troops they've created who will eventually learn to be at peace with the powers that dominate them as they age and think they're still a radical by being in a workplace union they didnt start. they will continue to arm feed entertain and service the guards that keep them bound and decry anyone with more of a spine than them as some form of adventurist that gets in the way of working class unity.
it's really important to understand that most people have literally zero issue with being governed, they just dont like the bits that make them feel disrespected but the standards for what's considered respectful governance drops every single year in typical wagie race to the bottom fashion. todays radicals are yesterdays upwardly mobile progressives who've been burned by having too romantic of a notion about how society ought to be run so they cry about the fight for a living wage and random social programs that make them feel like their government cares about them because at the base of it all is daddy issues naturally
