The Left has given up on the working class in the West - dismissed it as a purely reactionary force and instead turns its gaze to the most vulnerable and impoverished people in the Middle East/ Global South to elevate as “revolutionary subjects”. Sad, weird and twisted…
@SpeaksAngie Maybe, hear me out, the CIA infiltrated the left precisely to achieve this, to remove the working class from the left.
@SpeaksAngie Maybe the working class doesn't understand or commit to all the culture war stuff and the left like always despises them for their supossed ignorance. Because they can't castigaste them like they do with the middle class wouldn't be a good look they look elsewhere for their
@SpeaksAngie It’s a reversion to an old pattern—the fascination with Third World liberation movements that gripped the New Left in the late ’60s, given new theoretical heft by more recent concepts like the “multitude” and the “global majority.” An antipolitics masquerading as global justice.
@SpeaksAngie What you and others who use the term this way are referring to I imagine is the comfortable, progressive middle classes who deep down don’t want the radical change they preach, since it means mixing with those who don’t share their own priveleged lifestyle and views