it was malatesta that pointed out that the employed segment of the working class, itself, actual workers, has practically no revolutionary potential, because it is utterly reliant on the interests of capital - that the class conflict only really works in one direction. capital is consequently seeking for ways to maximize rent extracted from workers, but workers are themselves seeking only to be exploited ahead of each other - because that is what they are, as proletariat. they have no other function in the economy besides having their labour exploited.

a true revolutionary potential must be sought amongst the lumpenproletariat: the unemployed, the student class and other people that do not occupy paid positions within the system.

this is a fundamental insight of classical anarchism: all that workers will ever support is the reactionary and conservative aims of the existing status quo.

offer me solutions, offer me alternatives, and i'll decline...