"This is why the general strike on Nov. 2 appeared as it did, not as the voluntary withdrawal of labor from large factories and the like (where so few of us work), but rather as masses of people who work in unorganized workplaces, who are unemployed or underemployed or precarious in one way or another, converging on the chokepoints of capital flow."
Let's me repeat that: "people who work in unorganized workplaces, who are unemployed or underemployed or precarious in one way or another..." Basically the majority of people in the country. How is that a romanticization of the poor and the homeless? The Oakland Commune article brings up a crucial point in an era where there are fewer and fewer unionized jobs and the unions themselves are more interested in preservation than fighting for the unionization of new workforces.
^^^^^^^ CB: Romanticizing aside, pitting the 89% of the 99% against its leading and most organized sector is very much against the material and political interests of that unorganized 89%. It is very much doing the work of the 1%.
Workers of the world and of each country , unite !
Chapter II. Proletarians and Communists
In what relation do the Communists stand to the proletarians as a _whole_ ( all 99%)?
The Communists do not form a separate party opposed to the other working-class parties.
They have no interests separate and apart from those of the proletariat as a whole (all 99%).
They do not set up any sectarian principles of their own, by which to shape and mould the proletarian movement.
The Communists are distinguished from the other working-class parties by this only: 1. In the national struggles of the proletarians of the different countries, they point out and bring to the front the common interests of the entire (all 99%) proletariat, independently of all nationality ( and independently of employment status or union membership) 2. In the various stages of development which the struggle of the working class against the bourgeoisie has to pass through, they always and everywhere represent the interests of the movement as a whole (all 99%)