"The ruling classes, that is, the bourgeoisie, bureaucracy, intelligentsia, etc., never tire of affirming the incompetence, incapacity and ignorance of the workers. This has a reason; it is not something gratuitous or without purpose. In all class societies, the ruling classes affirm and reaffirm the inferiority of the exploited classes. In order for the latter to remain exploited, they must truly believe that they are incapable, inferior and ignorant.

A condition for workers to truly conquer their freedom is their self-activity as a class for themselves. No other class has an interest in this happening. The ruling class (bourgeoisie), the auxiliary classes of the bourgeoisie (bureaucracy and intelligentsia) and other upper classes (landowners, for example) insist with all the power they have on the incapacity of the workers. The workers, in turn, must, with all the weapons at their disposal, demonstrate their capacity for self-organization.

Pannekoek (1977) is emphatic on this issue. Both parties and unions, regardless of their orientation, actually represent interests that are not those of the working class. According to Pannekoek's analysis, these organizations represent an expression of the “old workers' movement”. This movement was not yet capable of acting on its own. Unions are the type of organization needed by a dispersed, incipient proletariat living in abject conditions, those of the beginning of capitalist production."

https://libcom.org/article/anton-pannekoeks-workers-councils-concrete-utopia-proletarian-revolution

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