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    1. ryan cooper‏Verified account @ryanlcooper 6 Oct 2019
      Replying to @HeerJeet

      not sure about this. most of the professional class would benefit a great deal from a full-dress welfare state and so forth

      6 replies 1 retweet 99 likes
    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 6 Oct 2019
      Replying to @ryanlcooper

      True, part of the political dynamic at work is the PMC is under stress & so becoming more receptive to social democracy. That's true all across the western world.

      6 replies 2 retweets 56 likes
    3. Liza Featherstone‏ @lfeatherz 6 Oct 2019
      Replying to @HeerJeet @ryanlcooper

      They would benefit greatly. But their consciousness is fucked up by elitism and the dream of being rich, so they are not a reliable constituency for social democracy and can turn right en masse as we've seen in Brazil and other countries.

      4 replies 0 retweets 22 likes
    4. AllThatIsSolidMeltsIntoAir‏ @RebelScholar68 6 Oct 2019
      Replying to @lfeatherz @HeerJeet @ryanlcooper

      The new nomenclature notwithstanding, their position is very similar to the intermediate strata who turned towards fascism in Europe in the 20s and 30s. That doesn't mean we shouldn't fight to win them over. We have to. But there is a dialectical relationship between winning ...

      1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
    5. AllThatIsSolidMeltsIntoAir‏ @RebelScholar68 6 Oct 2019
      Replying to @RebelScholar68 @lfeatherz and

      ... them over and building the independent political power of the working class. The key is to prioritize building that power without unnecessarily antagonizing the potentially more progressive elements in the PMC. ...

      1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
    6. AllThatIsSolidMeltsIntoAir‏ @RebelScholar68 6 Oct 2019
      Replying to @RebelScholar68 @lfeatherz and

      ... There is a lot of justifiable working class hostility towards the PMC that gets expressed in ways that reflect the working class's organizational and political weakness and lack of self-confidence. Thats to be expected, but its still important to fight for a politics that ...

      1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
    7. AllThatIsSolidMeltsIntoAir‏ @RebelScholar68 6 Oct 2019
      Replying to @RebelScholar68 @lfeatherz and

      ... recognizes the importance bringing as many intermediate class forces into alliance with and under the leadership of the working class as possible. Its also important to acknowledge the ambiguous class character of the Sanders campaign. ...

      1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
    8. AllThatIsSolidMeltsIntoAir‏ @RebelScholar68 6 Oct 2019
      Replying to @RebelScholar68 @lfeatherz and

      ... Its exciting to have a self-declared socialist commanding so much support and speaking to and in terms of the power of the working class, but the most progressive sections of the PMC are still very much in the leadership of this campaign which is really preliminary to ...

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    9. AllThatIsSolidMeltsIntoAir‏ @RebelScholar68 6 Oct 2019
      Replying to @RebelScholar68 @lfeatherz and

      ... a truly independent political organization of the working class of the sort that we need. Thats not a complaint, just an observation of the present reality.

      1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
    10. ram_k‏ @ramcdk 6 Oct 2019
      Replying to @RebelScholar68 @lfeatherz and

      Really really good thread

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 6 Oct 2019
      Replying to @ramcdk @RebelScholar68 and

      Yes, good thread.

      11:11 AM - 6 Oct 2019
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