David SessionsOvjeren akaunt

@davidsess

Historian of modern France and social science () and writer (, , etc)

Boston, MA
Vrijeme pridruživanja: veljača 2008.

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    14. sij

    My review of recent libertarian attacks on higher ed in the forthcoming is up. They're what you'd expect: anti-democratic misanthropy masquerading as science. But they're ironic considering the scale of their (unacknowledged) victory.

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  2. That has been the essential coalition electoral socialism has needed since the 1950s at least. It can be (and often has been) be sabotaged by the opportunism of professionals and/or by nativism & fear, but neither of these are essential, unchangeable, and insurmountable obstacles

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  3. The Bernie campaign is the living, breathing refutation of this: downwardly mobile professionals and college graduates who reject professional ideology plus a broad base of less-educated working-class people and immigrants who all recognize themselves in a common project.

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  4. But this is based on myths both about professionals AND the working class. Working-class and poor people may not speak in woke jargon, and some may even be suspicious of it, but they are in no way generally reactionary or even culturally conservative.

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  5. This why right-populists like Lind are pernicious: they ignore the real subjugation of professionals and lump them in with the ruling class purely on the basis of their education and the supposed cultural chasm between them and an inherently conservative working class.

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  6. I actually think this is possible! Professional downward mobility is a real material force in favor of it, and the actual experience of political organizing, as opposed to mere posting, tends to make common interests and a mutually-acceptable language seem more plausible.

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  7. ...that a multiracial political coalition based on common material interests can be sensitive to specific kinds of discrimination without the particular kind of dogmatically woke language they sometimes prefer and the hothouse purity politics that often go with it.

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  8. The challenge is not only to persuade a contingent of professionals to recognize their own subjugated position and their common interests with the working class. This entails not only making them more self-critical about professional ideology, but also facilitating recognition...

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  9. Poulantzas described this as "political instability and leftist extremism coupled with rightist opportunism." I would say coupled with an opportunism very specific to professionals: the myth of apolitical expertise, the technocrat as representative of the "common good."

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  10. And so you get the weird kind of leftism notable in the Warren base: uncompromising radicalism about *specific ways of expressing* identity politics (where the words matter more than the policies) PLUS admiration for technocratic-professional signifiers ("brilliance," "plans").

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  11. There are obstacles to this on both sides. On the professional side, most notably the education gap, which makes the grip of professional-meritocratic ideology on that fraction powerful, and tends to attract them to baroque, university-centric ways of expressing their politics.

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  12. Seems like the biggest challenge for electoral socialism is uniting the déclassé fractions of the professional class who are currently its organizational avant-garde with the working class and the poor who are its most reliable bases and who should always be the core of socialism

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  13. Also the Democratic Party is not a real party, not a thing that can be "unified"

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  14. Seems to me the voters at the door have never been more unified around something the way they are about beating Trump

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  15. Is there any tangible, measurable substance to the notion of "unifying the party," or is that just yet another meaningless pundit concept?

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    prije 17 sati

    What I always come back to with this is that the old corrupt ward-heelers were actually expected to deliver stuff to their constituents. The current class just conspires to give one another jobs and contracts.

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  17. A lot of talk about Warren being erased from post-Iowa coverage. It does seem weird. But it’s also because nothing much changes for her, so there is less to analyze and speculate about. Muddling to contested convention is her only path.

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