It’s so easy to bash the working class because if you are an elite you really don’t know them. I mean they are your nanny, your landscaper, your electrician, etc but you are elite. Why should you bother to talk to these people? They are all victims of false consciousness. If only they had asked you how to vote. If only
Honestly, who cares if the Democrats or Republican Party dies? Besides the people grifting off the party that is. The establishment Republicans also rejected the working class. It’s MAGA populist nationalists who have embraced them. It takes a special kind of stupid to hate your white, Christian American family farmer yet go to the mat for a Guatemalan campesino. It takes a Marxist. In fact, all of Marxism is a special kind of stupid. It’s a childish utopian fantasy based on hatred of normal human behavior, rules, and society. Not that conventional society doesn’t have room for improvement. But Marxists and Progressives have never improved anything. On the contrary, they destroy everything they touch and try to destroy anybody in their way. Political ideology should not be your religion. Most politicians and Marxist professors are not good people. Looking to these clowns and crooks for sociopolitical advice is like asking a pimp for relationship advice. Look at what these infantile imbeciles have put America ( and Europe) through the past few decades. All for nothing. For bad ideas and bad outcomes, but with the excuse that they meant well. They don’t mean well. They mean you harm. They will burn down the world to rule over the ashes. And most of them don’t even know the origins of the ideas they mindlessly regurgitate. Not that it would matter. Progs are all about feelings, not facts. The problem is reality is undefeated. Sounds basic, but it’s not. Marxism has failed everywhere because it’s built to fail. It can’t work. Structurally impossible because the basis of the ideology is built on lies and nonsense.
Actually, the leftist proclivity to condemn the politics of some working-class people predates the neo-Marxists. Lenin said that the working masses were largely ignorant and required the guidance and intelligence of a revolutionary vanguard to take us to the promised land.
Although I take issue with some Marxist contentions, I think Lenin was right about the backwardness of the Russian masses -- and todays leftists are correct in contending that most working class people are utterly addled, beknighted and are pliant and passive silly putty for the ruling class.
CONCRETE EXAMPLES:
Russian peasants thought that the Jews used gentile blood to make Matzah. American white workers, in 1964, were largely opposed to racial desegregation and the Civil Rights Act of 1965.
The masses were deserving of more material wealth, but their ideas were not worthy of much respect.
Most Americans don't realize that we were not at war with Russia during World War Two. How can such dingbats make informed opinions about political issues.
Most Americans don't know a damn thing about economics. If they had, they would have realized that Biden did not cause our bout with inflation.
Their ignorance did not come about because they were intrinsically inferior. I will not entertain just antedeluvian biases. They simply weren't educated.
I do not mean to sound like a disparaging dypeptic "limousine liberal," but sometimes stereotypes are true. Norman Lear's "Archie Bunker" character was not a figment of his imagination. People like that are well represented throughout the white working class.
ANOTHER ISSUE:
Pundits and commentators have been saying ever since election night 1952 -- when returns from working class wards in New Haven, Connecticut showed that working men were deserting Stevenson in favor of Eisenhower -- that working men were leaving the Democratic Party. In fact, they have been leaving -- and periodically returning -- for 70 years,
But one thing that Marcuse's followers failed to take into account--even today, there are a LOT more working-class people than there are university graduates. The Democrats are seeing the results now of abandoning the blue-collar worker, although I suspect it will take most of them a while to understand it and deal with it--because too many of them are degreed themselves. Living in a bubble makes it hard to see and understand things outside the bubble.
BTW, I have a degree myself--and I was salutatorian of my class at a small college. But I have been self-employed since 1975, and spent 40 years working in residential construction--mostly home repair and remodeling, but I did some work on new houses. So I have lived in both worlds.
Marxist woke warriors constitutes a religion - a religion designed to subvert, disrupt and ultimately destroy Western societies.
It’s so easy to bash the working class because if you are an elite you really don’t know them. I mean they are your nanny, your landscaper, your electrician, etc but you are elite. Why should you bother to talk to these people? They are all victims of false consciousness. If only they had asked you how to vote. If only
Honestly, who cares if the Democrats or Republican Party dies? Besides the people grifting off the party that is. The establishment Republicans also rejected the working class. It’s MAGA populist nationalists who have embraced them. It takes a special kind of stupid to hate your white, Christian American family farmer yet go to the mat for a Guatemalan campesino. It takes a Marxist. In fact, all of Marxism is a special kind of stupid. It’s a childish utopian fantasy based on hatred of normal human behavior, rules, and society. Not that conventional society doesn’t have room for improvement. But Marxists and Progressives have never improved anything. On the contrary, they destroy everything they touch and try to destroy anybody in their way. Political ideology should not be your religion. Most politicians and Marxist professors are not good people. Looking to these clowns and crooks for sociopolitical advice is like asking a pimp for relationship advice. Look at what these infantile imbeciles have put America ( and Europe) through the past few decades. All for nothing. For bad ideas and bad outcomes, but with the excuse that they meant well. They don’t mean well. They mean you harm. They will burn down the world to rule over the ashes. And most of them don’t even know the origins of the ideas they mindlessly regurgitate. Not that it would matter. Progs are all about feelings, not facts. The problem is reality is undefeated. Sounds basic, but it’s not. Marxism has failed everywhere because it’s built to fail. It can’t work. Structurally impossible because the basis of the ideology is built on lies and nonsense.
Time to stop trying it.
Good post.
Actually, the leftist proclivity to condemn the politics of some working-class people predates the neo-Marxists. Lenin said that the working masses were largely ignorant and required the guidance and intelligence of a revolutionary vanguard to take us to the promised land.
Although I take issue with some Marxist contentions, I think Lenin was right about the backwardness of the Russian masses -- and todays leftists are correct in contending that most working class people are utterly addled, beknighted and are pliant and passive silly putty for the ruling class.
CONCRETE EXAMPLES:
Russian peasants thought that the Jews used gentile blood to make Matzah. American white workers, in 1964, were largely opposed to racial desegregation and the Civil Rights Act of 1965.
The masses were deserving of more material wealth, but their ideas were not worthy of much respect.
Most Americans don't realize that we were not at war with Russia during World War Two. How can such dingbats make informed opinions about political issues.
Most Americans don't know a damn thing about economics. If they had, they would have realized that Biden did not cause our bout with inflation.
Their ignorance did not come about because they were intrinsically inferior. I will not entertain just antedeluvian biases. They simply weren't educated.
I do not mean to sound like a disparaging dypeptic "limousine liberal," but sometimes stereotypes are true. Norman Lear's "Archie Bunker" character was not a figment of his imagination. People like that are well represented throughout the white working class.
ANOTHER ISSUE:
Pundits and commentators have been saying ever since election night 1952 -- when returns from working class wards in New Haven, Connecticut showed that working men were deserting Stevenson in favor of Eisenhower -- that working men were leaving the Democratic Party. In fact, they have been leaving -- and periodically returning -- for 70 years,
https://davidgottfried.substack.com/p/are-you-tired-of-the-same-old-explanations
I wrote something about this yesterday.
https://autisticredneckphilhawkins.substack.com/p/the-basic-irony-of-marxism
But one thing that Marcuse's followers failed to take into account--even today, there are a LOT more working-class people than there are university graduates. The Democrats are seeing the results now of abandoning the blue-collar worker, although I suspect it will take most of them a while to understand it and deal with it--because too many of them are degreed themselves. Living in a bubble makes it hard to see and understand things outside the bubble.
BTW, I have a degree myself--and I was salutatorian of my class at a small college. But I have been self-employed since 1975, and spent 40 years working in residential construction--mostly home repair and remodeling, but I did some work on new houses. So I have lived in both worlds.
I’d venture to say that he was influenced by Gramsci