9k:RD/ worker compression (Western-Marxism) (Q38,05)

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worker compression (Western-Marxism) -> the motif of claiming that all human beings experiencing suffering or empathy and all workers experiencing working-class suffering are the exact same thing and there are no differences whatsoever between them, such that there is an implication that every single human being is currently a worker.

universal suffering / a sphere which has a universal character by its universal suffering and claims no particular right because no particular wrong, but wrong generally, is perpetuated against it (Marx 1844, Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right) / a class with radical chains ->
oh boy. I am almost positive some people in Western Marxism have interpreted this totally wrong. you have to understand that the concept of "suffering" here means something oddly specific and isn't just any suffering at all, and the reason the statement is interesting is that it's saying that a highly specific form of suffering still applies to everybody.
let's see... hang on... okay I've got a B-side analogy. is your cat a member of the proletariat??? if you were a Western-Marxist talking about 'worker compression' or 'how Jungian psychoanalysis and repression define the proletariat' you'd be pretty much implying that. Marx isn't implying that.
universal suffering -> note: Marx quite literally means the physical bond of capital and what capital is doing as an object. I just rediscovered that today and suddenly felt like "wow, I've been stupid" because I talk about 'chunk competition' all the time but I rarely stop and distinguish how it changes things for it to be refined into capital per se. yes, there's a small difference and it makes all the difference.

worker compression (ironic) / worker compression (Trotskyism; international Marxism) / worker compression (motif of petty bourgeoisie or formally unemployed getting "compressed" back into workers; ironic connotation, not original connotation)
A layer of tiny contractors which has successfully been "googlized" or "Amazonized" will eventually get squashed back down into an owner and a proletariat