Generations of leftism
Gen 0: Pre-Marxist guilds
Gen 1: 19th c trade unions
Gen 2: late 19th/early 20c general labor movement
Gen 3: Revolutionary Bolshevism+Maoism
Gen 4: 1960s hippie counter-culture socialism+LatAm liberation theology
-- neoliberal winter, 1985-97--
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Gen 5: 1990s-2008 intersectionalism
Gen 6: 2008-2014 Pikettyism-Occupyism
2015-2021: Wokeism
Gen 7: 2021 0 now: ?? post-Covid somethingism
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The degree of historical fragmentation/discontinuity of the left is under-appreciated. At most people distinguish between old and new leftists as being class vs. identity driven, with corollaries for being environmental doves vs. hawks respectively (basically anti/pro nuclear)
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oh yeah, i would argue guild-like institutions were historically prevalent enough to warrant their own taxonomy



