Solidarity is giving support to a stranger on their own terms. It is different from philanthropy because it is given on the stranger’s terms, not that of the giver.
It is the fundamental ethos of the workers’ movement.
Solidarity is necessary to organize workers and to create labor movements; workers join together to aid one another on the mere grounds that they share a class. This is a necessary prerequisite to defeating the ruling classes at their game of divide-and-conquer.
Thus, solidarity is the ethos of the social revolution, for it is only in standing in solidarity with all oppressed and working people that the revolution can be victorious.
Just as the socialized means of production are the necessary prerequisite for the Communist movement and scientific socialism, so they too does this socialization produce the ethic of solidarity as the only means of combatting the power of the bosses.
THE PEOPLE NEED A PRESS!