Tag: Barack Obama
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stigmatised as socialism (#marxtheory)
Even the simplest demand for bourgeois financial reform, for the most ordinary liberalism, for the most formal republicanism, for the most basic democracy, is simultaneously castigated as an ‘outrage to society’ and stigmatised as ‘socialism’. –Marx Later Political Writings (p.40)
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underdog vs. winning team impulses
My floating signifier rant yesterday was tangential to the question I had set out to approach. Likely there will be a few more tangents still along the way… The section I was reading from Dynamics of Contention about the Yellow Revolution in the Philippines got me thinking about shifting and emerging political alignments — thinking…
Jonathan Matthew Smucker
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Anatomy of populist hegemonic alignment (part 2)
I concluded Part 1 by summarizing three mistakes progressive change agents often make in trying to build a broad alignment: 1) Building from scratch, 2) Purism, and 3) Long lefty laundry lists. Summarizing the latter, it’s tempting to think that the way to attract a broad base is to name lots and lots of issues…
Jonathan Matthew Smucker
Jonathan Matthew Smucker 