This paper problematizes the prevailing instrumentalist conception of labor movement by bringing the labor question into the purview of empowerment politics. This paper holds that Nietzsche's critique of modernity should provide rich resources for labor movement to reflect upon its goals and means. An aesthetically mediated radical self-education project is vital for individual workers (and, for this matter, social movement participants) to break the institutionalized routines and the unreflected binding norms on which captialism and the power that be rely. Despite Nietzsche's downright contempt for the social-which is highly problematic too, the Nietzschean caveat is precisely the irreducibility of the individual to the soical.