[lbo-talk] INSTANT POPULISM: A short history of populism old and new

[Somebody Somebody]

Alan: I think I may have misinterpreted you as accepting what I (perhaps wrongly)
took to be SA's suggestion that the union-based reform parties were Marxist. I don't think they were and so am not sure how they fit in a critique of Marxism for being unable to deal with the problem of high wage skilled workers. 

Somebody: Marxism has problems dealing with low wage service industry workers just as it has with high wage skilled workers. Like Wojtek pointed out, geographic dispersion and lack of concentration matter as much, at least, as class position. In fact, class as a unit of analysis really only succeeds when dealing with the bourgeoisie, the most cohesive and self-conscious class in history.