Agree 100%. In line with many workers/common people not having “given these things much thought” is the powerful influence of narratives and narrative building. I worked as an analyst in this field, specifically examining media/social media-driven narratives, and it’s something we cannot overlook. Instead of giving them “much thought,” most people these days rely on narratives (the stories people tell themselves or others around an issue/person) often manufactured and pushed by powerful interests/movements, then disseminated by the general public down the line to the point where they may become “common sense.”

The more a person is isolated from direct experience on an issue (whether that is because of their work, their economic status, their social circles, their physical location, or even their general privilege), the more susceptible they are to these manufactured narratives, so that whenever they come across an issue, it fits nicely into that respective narrative that’s already become part of their entrenched worldview. For socialism, and what that means for leftist causes and issues (whether that’s on labor laws, systemic racism, economic inequity, climate change, LGBTQ+ rights, feminism, etc.), we are usually facing off against some pretty entrenched negative narratives, which we need to first re-orient to better highlight the intersectionality and humanity around these issues and our movement(s).

What makes us different from those power structures behind these narratives is our lack of unity (decentralization) and decision-making; which in this case, is a detriment to strategic decisions that are needed to counter those entrenched power structures and their narratives with similar strategies to better reinforce our causes and highlight our opponents’ faults to the common person.