I don’t think that form is sufficient to building consciousness nor do I think that consciousness spontaenously arises. Instead I think that both as a point of principle and a way to develop consciousness in a deeper way we should build prefigurative institutions and struggles. In that way I’ve been drifting more towards struggle with an overt ideology, because I don’t have faith that mere struggle is sufficient nor that ideology alone is sufficient. I think those are the joint fallacies of left communism and leninism respectively.

The struggle against capital/class struggle is in it’s very nature part of capitalist society. It’s intregal to it - ala Negri/Cleaver’s observations that it’s the workers who motivate changes in capitalism. So participating in the class struggle always necessitates comprimises with class society and acceptance of it.

But the repeatition of the struggles, that there is no end to them causes awareness that a new society is needed, possible. So revolutionary consciousness comes from class struggle but class struggle, no matter the form, doesn’t automatically generate revolutionary consciousness.

Now that’s the rub. In ye olden days there was a focus on education of the membership in the IWW, left-wing SPA, SPC, OBU, etc. These days the focus is strategy, organizational forms, etc. Look at Glaberman, STO, the modern IWW, Negri, Councilism, etc. and you can see that form of organization substitutes for knowledge- education. Find the right form of struggle and revolutionary perspectives are expected spring almost spontaniously from them, like Zeus from Hera.

From my perspective, vis the WSP, I’ve been going back to the basics - Marx, etc. because by understanding the framework of capitalism we can better educate during the class struggles as well as build better struggles.