The opposite is actually true. The working class is actually the real driving force behind the economy and the state. We represent the majority. That gives us the real power.

The working classes are what actually creates new value, yes, but we do not control the economy nor the state. The state, in capitalism, exists to protect capitalists, and cement their ownership. We do not control the economy, we merely fuel it, until we can establish socialism by overthrowing the capitalist state and replacing it with a socialist one.

This is also not true. As the majority, the working class has far more leverage than you think. We can stop production any time. Pull the whole thing down, or start it back up again. The only reason we don’t exercise that power is because we are not engaged.

Strikes are helpful, as is organizing. This isn’t acting within the confines of the system, though, but struggling against it. The reason we don’t isn’t because we are apathetic, but because we aren’t organized.

You are correct…it isn’t about “moral apathy”…it’s about political apathy. The “real, material process and system of imbalances” only exists because the working class chooses not to exercise its power.

Incorrect. It isn’t the working classes failing to choose, and again, you’re under the mistaken assumption that the working classes can direct capitalism. You are making a moral judgement of the working classes, but instead we need to actively organize.