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I want to talk a bit about that Bloomberg piece on donors to Trump and Biden, which is being heralded by the usual suspects as proof that Trump is the candidate of the working class while Biden represents the PMC, elites, and other dissolute and degenerate classes. 1/5 https://twitter.com/marxinhell/status/1323614218680176646
The irony I want to note is that Marx, between 1848 and 1867, turned away from the “old working class” of his day and towards the “new working class,” and that this divide, then as now, was founded in part on the old working class’s ability to imagine “going it alone.” 2/5
Here are 2 passages from my book where I discuss this. In both, what is at issue is that the new, industrial working class, Marx thought, *knew* that they needed to combine in large numbers and across national lines to confront the problems that faced them. 3/5
It seems to me that, today, the inheritors of this awareness in the old, developed economies, are the service workers, the nurses, the retail workers, the knowledge workers, and that the “hard hat” groups are in the position of the 19th century artisans. 4/5
This is why I have zero sympathy for attempts to construct a socialist imaginary out of hard hats and pick-up trucks. The socialist constituency is this young woman from Lubbock, TX, and all the class warriors like her. // https://www.tiktok.com/@shanaquiapo/video/6889809252559392005?sender_device=pc&sender_web_id=6891014618732004870&is_from_webapp=1
