. I guess my question for good Marxists out there is how we build a revolution of class consciousness in America and the West today about our place as labor. Is it lost now that we're an individualist society? Is it too manifest in culture? There simply won't be another Bernie Sanders in the next or any foreseeable generation. People are only getting more and more beat down.
For me, I've put significant stock in the idea that Warren is sort of the next best thing, the cynic's answer to Bernie. But there's something about Pete that utterly breaks my brain, that smart people have this cognitive dissonance about him and what he represents. He to me is more like a Dem Trump than anyone, not because he's a demagogue but because he's a Harvard/Oxford/McKinsey guy talking about corruption and a Douglass Plan. And seemingly people buy it because of either meritocracy or because they actually think his policy is good! Or they're charmed by him or some such thing. I don't begrudge a Klob voter because Klob tells you exactly who she is, she's quite literally the "no we can't" candidate. I don't begrudge most Biden voters because they're just grilling grandpas having backyard barbecues at their retirement communities. They couldn't tell you who Neera Tanden was to save their lives. I envy that. I don't begrudge Yang voters because more than any other candidate, I think his supporters really like his ideas more than who he is or what he represents. But who is Pete for? Seemingly just the managerial class or some similar hyperspecific
I don’t think I agree with this and we are fucked if you are right. From all the grassroots organizing and electoral work flowing through a variety of different orgs: Sunrise Mvmt, DSA, Our Rev, BLM, Cosecha, labor unions (particularly teachers and other professions seeing increases in mass direct action), we have to be developing working class leaders to push this movement forward. I hope we can already consider folks like Salazar or Tlaib or AOC and many others as furthering this movement beyond Bernie’s role.
IDK there's too much rambling there, but I didn't want to argue, just wanted to brain dump.