empathy for the bourgeoisie

If you propose a revolution to a liberal, then first thing they will retort with is "But what of the bourgeoisie? Are they not people too? Have some empathy! Be kind to them for they're just people like us!"

A laughable remark. Because it is the bourgeoisie we empathise the most with. The bourgeoisie hate us, and they will, with every facet of information, with every medium, teach us to hate ourselves. When we try to feel what the oppressor feels, then we feel that hatred. The same hatred they feel for us. We feel doubt in our actions. We feel deserving to be under the boot. We feel ashamed of our humanity. We can thank the bourgeoisie for that.

They rule the world around us, and it is their sentiment of us that is projected through the world. The alienation, the smallness, the constant idealisation of themselves to make us feel inferior by contrast. That is empathy for the bourgeoisie. That is feeling the exact same thing they feel.

They might be human, but all they foster is an inhumanity towards others. To feel what they feel is to feel the inhumanity we always feel. I can't think of a better way to win through to oneself, to understand the value of class warfare, to see the immediate and acute urge to fight and overthrow the bourgeoisie than to empathise with them.

If the bourgeoisie would ever surrender to us and demand mercy, then stay as far away from the sobering reality of empathy as you possibly can. Try to pity them, maybe they're pathetic enough for that to work.

Or don't, they'd certainly have you dead the moment you become an inconvenience, and the liberals demanding nonviolent action would be nowhere to be seen when it's about to happen. Although they might just appear on television afterwards, belting out a vague sentiment of police reforms that they then never pursue. Because liberals have a stake in this matter too. Marginalised and oppressed people killed by the bourgeoisie are a fine pity project for those sanctimonious vultures.

That's why they'd never have you defend yourself, and instead ask that you slavishly surrender to their soothing notions about reformations and referendums that will never see the light of day.