Isn’t it interesting, 10 years ago bugs like Brett Stephens never would have used words like “working class” or even acknowledge the concept of class as something that exists, now everyone is playing on our rhetorical field and using our terms like it’s second nature
If there’s been one small victory for the socialist left, it’s the fact we’ve clawed back so much conceptual room and created a kind of nascent half-realized socialist realism in the heart of capitalist realism
Twenty years ago they would’ve just spammed the terrorist and criminal activist card and left it at that, maybe even used words like “illiberal” or “Soviet remnant”
Isn’t it interesting, 10 years ago bugs like Brett Stephens never would have used words like “working class” or even acknowledge the concept of class as something that exists, now everyone is playing on our rhetorical field and using our terms like it’s second nature
If there’s been one small victory for the socialist left, it’s the fact we’ve clawed back so much conceptual room and created a kind of nascent half-realized socialist realism in the heart of capitalist realism
Twenty years ago they would’ve just spammed the terrorist and criminal activist card and left it at that, maybe even used words like “illiberal” or “Soviet remnant”