I guess it’d be helpful to understand more about why you think class consciousness is in conflict with using “reason, negotiation, justice, goal factoring and pulling the rope sideways”.
I would think (decent) trade union activity was precisely interested in reasonable negotiations targeted at justice for a group of people.
try to generally decrease your enemy’s power, including cutting off resources, which includes lying to them and otherwise harming their thinking (think propaganda, gaslighting, misinformation, FUD);
view moves by the enemy as hostile—e.g. the enemy’s public statements are propagandistic lies, the enemy’s overtures for and moves within a negotiation are trying to dispossess you, etc.;
in particular you use the misinterpretations of your enemy’s actions as hostile, to further strengthen your boundaries and internal unity of will;
and all of this escalates in a self-reinforcing way.
I guess it’d be helpful to understand more about why you think class consciousness is in conflict with using “reason, negotiation, justice, goal factoring and pulling the rope sideways”.
I would think (decent) trade union activity was precisely interested in reasonable negotiations targeted at justice for a group of people.
Because when you have an enemy, you try to
enforce your boundaries to exclude the enemy;
try to generally decrease your enemy’s power, including cutting off resources, which includes lying to them and otherwise harming their thinking (think propaganda, gaslighting, misinformation, FUD);
view moves by the enemy as hostile—e.g. the enemy’s public statements are propagandistic lies, the enemy’s overtures for and moves within a negotiation are trying to dispossess you, etc.;
in particular you use the misinterpretations of your enemy’s actions as hostile, to further strengthen your boundaries and internal unity of will;
and all of this escalates in a self-reinforcing way.