R e j e c t t h e e c o - f a s c i s t n a r r a t i v e , i t i s i d e o l o g i c a l p o i s o n !
"Bernie Sanders has called for video game developers to unionize, and his campaign once issued a statement describing Sanders as a 'gamer in spirit'"
"In both anti-populisms, there is an embedded elitism, which tends to highlight some political agency assumed to be fundamentally and essentially superior. In the case of the liberals, it is the market, the institutions or the technocrats that always “know better”; in the case of left anti-populism, it is “the class” and its vanguard that does so. In both cases however, “the people” or “plebs” are an amorphous mass that is not legitimate enough to lead — either due to technical (in)capacity or its underdeveloped political consciousness. This hierarchy is what reveals the embedded elitism of all anti-populism. In the first case, this is founded on the superior knowledge and experience of a new aristocracy; in the second case, in the superior epistemological and political value of historical materialism."
-Jacobin out here calling out left elitism.
-Jacobin out here calling out left elitism.
If you want my opinion on left populism, I'm very fond of the anti-elitism of the ideology, but I'm skeptical of how ineffective the groups that have adopted it have been.