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“Cops are class traitors, but naming what class cops are part of in order to betray it is liberalism” (hexbear.net)

submitted 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Also, I'm talking about labour power and labour markets in regards to cops and their employment, not just "doing stuff for people for money". They're not proletarians, specifically.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

You'll notice cops aren't getting hired based on labour output. They're not getting squeezed for labour or getting their hours extended or bringing machinery to increase their output (they buy their own machinery through the department to protect themselves or enhance how much pain they can inflict and how much privacy they can spy upon, but it's not actually a capitalist money circuit where their variable capital shrinks as all this constant capital builds up).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago

This kind of has echoes of the barista debate last year.