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Post Hartlepool: how does the Performative Left centre the working class without centring the working class? That will be their project over the next 12 months.
Blue Labour has cornered the market in centring the wc but with a massive red flag caveat added & #39;social...
Blue Labour has cornered the market in centring the wc but with a massive red flag caveat added & #39;social...
conservatism& #39; which is incredibly dangerous and reactionary if ever expressed in terms of power or political influence. The Performative Left response to this post-Harttepool has been to steal wholesale the language of BL (without the caveat) going as far as to use word-for-word
...BL& #39;s criticism of & #39;identity politics& #39; against them. This is how surreal, insane and utterly devoid of meaning the left has become. "No you shut up". Yes they both express & #39;class& #39; sociologically (rather than in marxian terms) which lends itself naturally to accusations...
...of & #39;identity politics& #39; from both sides. The key fundamental difference is BL is talking about the actual working class, [the one the actual working class recognise in themselves], whereas the Performative Left focus narrowly, exclusively, on the service sector/precarious end..
...of the & #39;social classes& #39;. It is entirely deliberate. Why? There is a critial mass of rga surplus within this work environment (using it as a kind of economic waiting room til the jobs they want/are educated for become available). Despite the relative economic downgrade in...
...real terms, their social and cultural capital remains that of their natural class status - the privilege middle class. Which is why this area is such an enticing proposition for the Performative Left - they know how to communicate with their own.
Politically the...
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...Performative Left stand the actual working class and the service/precarious working class in opposition to each other; one a worthwhile political project, the other "gammon". This deliberately constructed antagonism - pitching one section of the working class against the...
...other is necessary for the Performative Left to have any credibility or purchase with its audience, it also does the job that capitalism requires of it - dividing the working class against itself. The Performative Left and its ideological framework of & #39;identity politics& #39; is...
...as twisted and dangerous and just as reactionary as Blue Labour& #39;s & #39;social conservatism& #39;. The battleground for our class is not amongst the echoed steps of the left& #39;s empty dreams*. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oheuQfHUf2s">https://www.youtube.com/watch...
*although love naturally remains in our hearts
this thread is in part a reference to this article https://novaramedia.com/2021/05/10/everybody-is-doing-identity-politics-even-if-they-think-theyre-not/">https://novaramedia.com/2021/05/1...
