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

c b cb31450 at gmail.com
Fri Dec 3 10:19:46 PST 2010


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.

^^^^^ CB: Most Marxists are acutely aware of divisions within the working class. Marx and Engels clued us all in when they made "Workers of the world , _unite_ ! (emphasis added) the central advice and slogan of the movement. Marxist analysis doesn't have a problem being aware of the many ways that the working class is divided. It does have big problems persuading workers to overcome these divisions.



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