This, by @rbreich, confirms my view that right-wing populism is, in large part, the result of the left abandoning class struggle. I am fully aware that class is uncool in contemporary political discourse, but it remains very, very real.

#populism #nationalism #WorkingClass #ClassPolitics

https://robertreich.substack.com/p/rich-men-north-of-richmond?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=365422&post_id=136247002&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email

@Cero

Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937) Selections from the Prison Notebooks

“At a certain point in their historical lives, social classes become detached from their traditional parties. In other words, the traditional parties in that particular organisational form, with the particular men who constitute, represent and lead them, are no longer recognised by their class (or fraction of a class) as its expression. When such crises occur, the immediate situation becomes delicate and dangerous, because the field is open for violent solutions, for the activities of unknown forces, represented by charismatic ‘men of destiny’".

[“Men of destiny” like Hitler, Mussolini, Mosley (UK), Franco (Spain), McCarthy (US) … and now Trump unless stopped]

#ClassPolitics #Fascism #RiseOfFascism

It actually made a lot of sense, in the political climate of the 1980s and 90s, for the left to play up identity issues and focus less exclusively on class. For one thing, the existing traditions of working class solidarity politics *did* need to be hauled out of the 19th century. They did need to come to terms with the fact that certain identity markers (eg being a PoC, homosexual etc) push people further down class hierarchies.

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#ClassPolitics #ActivistHistory

Listening to Gamification on BBC R4

I'm so glad I don't inhabit these working environments. It sounds absolutely horrendous.

#gaming #work #classpolitics

Divide
Classes, clash
Wealth, education, power
Polarizing Asia's citizens
Fate

#asianamericans #classpolitics #polarization #cinquain #poetry

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/06/briefing/asian-americans-conservative-republican.html

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Tempest member @andsern@twitter.com contributes to a discussion about revolutionary socialists and broad left parties https://www.leftvoice.org/class-independence-and-the-broad-parties-a-response-to-left-voice/ #classpolitics via @left_voice@twitter.com

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