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The working class: gravediggers of capitalism

11:45am Fri 26 Mar
melbourne

Workers make everything run in our society, while the ruling class calls the shots and decides what happens with the wealth our labour produces.

Capitalist society makes this state of affairs seem normal. But when workers organise and fight back, we can get a glimpse of the power held by the working class – not just its power to shut down the profit machine and force concessions from the bosses, but its potential to run society in a democratic, collective fashion.

This session will explore what working-slass resistance can look like, and why Marxists consider the working class to be the gravediggers of capitalism.

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