not voting for trump but low key hope biden doesnt win so the material conditions of a failing America will be on full display
Marxism has a fatal flaw in it somewhere that ONLY renders it appealing to the middle classes of developed countries, rather than the working classes of developed countries
Good news, friend: it’s also wildly appealing in developing countries.
So yeah, pretty much every demographic other than the one that Marx predicted. Wild, huh?
I’m partial to a Gramscian explanation. In the imperial core, the working class haven’t ever won a war of position, ie propaganda, which heavily limits their ability to win wars of manoeuvre.
I think it’s a combination of that and colonial superprofits keeping most workers in the imperial core just a little bit too comfortable for them to risk it all in a revolution.
That’s not to say that the labor aristocracy wouldn’t be better off materially under socialism; it’s just that the circumstances aren’t quite dire enough to motivate a direct revolutionary conflict with the imperialist state.
This video from Hakim on the subject is really good and offers a tangible response to the problem for parties in the core (i.e., support third world revolutionary movements as a priority):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lDZaKjfs4E
But yeah, also propaganda.
I’m partial to a Gramscian explanation. In the imperial core, the working class haven’t ever won a war of position, ie propaganda, which heavily limits their ability to win wars of manoeuvre.
Where can one read more on this?
Thanks for the resource. The “Buttigieg” citations scattered throughout are deeply triggering though, lol.
