Doug Henwood wrote:
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> What is different is that it's hitting a social stratum that
> had thought itself superior and immune. Which makes it no less
> distressing and ugly, of course.
>
Perhaps more than ugly. This is a stratum of the working class which no more thinks of itself as working clas than do sociologists (or marxists who still are trapped in the 19th century satanic mills). So if you focus on their consciousness it is that of petty producers, who imagine that they own the product of their own labor and are convinced that there should be a market for it.
ONE of the routes that can take could lead to an actual movement that might well be legitimately compared to fascism.
One hopes otherwise.
Carrol