It’s been my mantra these past few years. When I meet a professional (or a capitalist), I just assume that they’re gonna have bad opinions. And if I meet someone doing actual prole world, and possibly having some other life disadvantage, I just assume that they’re probably decent and have an OK world view.

I notice myself bringing this philosophy into convos with the younger comrades, telling them to be careful of the beautiful posh people that pop into their lives. Also with organising, I’m trying to include and/or involve more poor people and exclude more useless professionals. It’s not easy, and I’m not gonna brag and say that I found an easy way to do this, but it’s a pretty main focus.

I get that Friedrich Engels rich boy types do exist, I’m not closed to the possibility of someone having comfort yet being decent. I’m sure that there are a few shitty poor people out there as well, but I assume that on average, the proles are gonna way kinder.

Sorry if this is poorly thought out or badly typed. I’m really burnt out from work atm.