But honestly, I feel a more base, emotionally driving hatred towards the more immediate capitalists in my life. I hate my landlord, I hate my district manager, I hate my uncle who makes 250k a year sending emails. These are more the people I want to rip out of their homes kicking and screaming to the guillotines.

Pretty much every successful communist revolution didn't direct their fury towards just the richest of the richest, they recognized there were people down the hierarchy who were still exploiters who deserved the wrath of the proletariat. Calling for the liquidation of American Kulaks would do more for socialism in America than trying to get people to strike against Bezos.

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[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 12 points 1 day ago

I agree with you but I think it happens at the tail end of organising. Not the front end.

The front end of building revolution is building the vanguard, building the educated people of the working class and the skillsets of those who will organise the working class.

The tail end of revolutionary organising is the working class unleashing their anger on any enemies they can get their hands on, and this culminates in attacking those close by.

At the front end the focus is on the big things because it's the big picture. But once the vanguard is built up I agree with you, a turn away from that big picture and onto the various things that make the working class furious in their day to day lives is more likely to motivate them out and into a fight.