Well that's unnecessarily confusing - and I, along with others, would dispute that definition of workers/proletarian and not think it to be generally understood in that way. Eg, children and pensioners are clearly not workers; it reads as workerist and exclusive. But if that's what you are meaning to say you'd be more accurate - and better understood - to say "A resource for discontented proles" or "A resource for the discontented working class". Or something snappier along those lines...
That's the difficulty, saying something snappier! Because working class isn't snappy, and unfortunately proles is something which would be misunderstood by far more people (outside of the ultraleft at least). If we (or anyone else) come up with something better we will change it
Yes, you're probably right - but your interpretation of "workers" as 'really meaning all proles' is at least as ultra-left 'specialist' a usage as the other options...
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Er, what about the unemployed, the schoolkids, the retired, the imprisoned, the disabled/sick etc?
Red, we use "workers" as
Red, we use "workers" as meaning members of the proletariat.
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Well that's unnecessarily
Well that's unnecessarily confusing - and I, along with others, would dispute that definition of workers/proletarian and not think it to be generally understood in that way. Eg, children and pensioners are clearly not workers; it reads as workerist and exclusive. But if that's what you are meaning to say you'd be more accurate - and better understood - to say "A resource for discontented proles" or "A resource for the discontented working class". Or something snappier along those lines...
That's the difficulty, saying
That's the difficulty, saying something snappier! Because working class isn't snappy, and unfortunately proles is something which would be misunderstood by far more people (outside of the ultraleft at least). If we (or anyone else) come up with something better we will change it
Yes, you're probably right -
Yes, you're probably right - but your interpretation of "workers" as 'really meaning all proles' is at least as ultra-left 'specialist' a usage as the other options...