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Because it's a conservative journal. Their entire world view basically doesn't consider that as something to be concerned about to begin with.

by xxpor 5y ago

hogFeast 5y ago
You should have read to the end...you also probably should have actually read more about what conservatives think, rather than what people who aren't conservatives say conservatives think.
- xxpor 5y ago
  As a matter of fact I did read to the end, since other than the eye-rollingly dumb rhetoric around wokeness it did raise interesting points. They get the root cause completely wrong, but of course that's expected. Conservatives are free to talk about their agenda whenever they like. The fact of the matter is elite conservative thought is wildly unpopular, and they know it. So all this culture war crap is all they have.
- cmrdporcupine 5y ago
  Yeah, it's funny, I read to the end; it's not a bad piece of writing though I suspect I wouldn't see eye to eye with the writer on some economic issues; I hold opinions that you might call classical Marxist, or Marxian, and to be honest, the analysis seemed almost "historical materialist" and he even uses Marx in his argumentation, and this quote "If politics is indeed downstream of culture, then it must be added that culture finds itself perched snugly downstream from the realm of production." could come straight out of an old issue of Monthly Review or Capital & Class. Anyways, not easy to pigeon-hole. But maybe not super coherent either. And yeah, his quip about "what passes for the left" -- indeed. The left -- and its bread and butter based economic critique -- is mostly unidentifiable in North American politics today. To the point that most educated Americans can't distinguish between neoliberalism and "socialism" anymore.
  - telotortium 5y ago
    Malcom Kyeyune, at least, is a one-time socialist. Now he seems to be more of a (right) populist, albeit still heavily influenced by Marxism. According to this blog post[0], he believes that the populist right is the actual party of the working class, since leftist parties have invariably begun to advocate for the interests of the professional-managerial class, who are their primary clients these days. [0] https://tinkzorg.wordpress.com/2020/05/07/on-strasserism-and-the-decay-of-the-left/ https://tinkzorg.wordpress.com/2020/05/07/on-strasserism-and...
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    - pydry 5y ago
      >he believes that the populist right is the actual party of the working class A pretty neat way of ingratiating himself with right wing elites and a promising route to political power.
      - FooBarBizBazz 5y ago
        And, if you are on the left, shouldn't you kind-of want the "bad guys" to start borrowing your ideas? That should make things less-bad when they win, right? As far as I can tell, the problem, apart from Trump winning, was that he didn't do enough of this Bannonesque stuff, and instead remained too-much a (typical, apart from the incompetence) Big Business Republican.
        pydry 5y ago
        ?? This is the two wings of the business party arguing over which one of them better represents actual people. Yeah, Trump attempted some left wing populist rhetoric just before he won but it was just rhetoric.
        FooBarBizBazz 5y ago
pfkurtz 5y ago
Yeah I know. I wish more people noticed that the most powerful people keep being left out of diagnoses of our problems.

Because it's a conservative journal. Their entire world view basically doesn't consider that as something to be concerned about to begin with.

by xxpor 5y ago

Because it's a conservative journal. Their entire world view basically doesn't consider that as something to be concerned about to begin with.

hogFeast 5y ago

You should have read to the end...you also probably should have actually read more about what conservatives think, rather than what people who aren't conservatives say conservatives think.

xxpor 5y ago
As a matter of fact I did read to the end, since other than the eye-rollingly dumb rhetoric around wokeness it did raise interesting points. They get the root cause completely wrong, but of course that's expected. Conservatives are free to talk about their agenda whenever they like. The fact of the matter is elite conservative thought is wildly unpopular, and they know it. So all this culture war crap is all they have.
cmrdporcupine 5y ago
Yeah, it's funny, I read to the end; it's not a bad piece of writing though I suspect I wouldn't see eye to eye with the writer on some economic issues; I hold opinions that you might call classical Marxist, or Marxian, and to be honest, the analysis seemed almost "historical materialist" and he even uses Marx in his argumentation, and this quote "If politics is indeed downstream of culture, then it must be added that culture finds itself perched snugly downstream from the realm of production." could come straight out of an old issue of Monthly Review or Capital & Class. Anyways, not easy to pigeon-hole. But maybe not super coherent either. And yeah, his quip about "what passes for the left" -- indeed. The left -- and its bread and butter based economic critique -- is mostly unidentifiable in North American politics today. To the point that most educated Americans can't distinguish between neoliberalism and "socialism" anymore.
- telotortium 5y ago
  Malcom Kyeyune, at least, is a one-time socialist. Now he seems to be more of a (right) populist, albeit still heavily influenced by Marxism. According to this blog post[0], he believes that the populist right is the actual party of the working class, since leftist parties have invariably begun to advocate for the interests of the professional-managerial class, who are their primary clients these days. [0] https://tinkzorg.wordpress.com/2020/05/07/on-strasserism-and-the-decay-of-the-left/ https://tinkzorg.wordpress.com/2020/05/07/on-strasserism-and...
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  - pydry 5y ago
    >he believes that the populist right is the actual party of the working class A pretty neat way of ingratiating himself with right wing elites and a promising route to political power.
    - FooBarBizBazz 5y ago
      And, if you are on the left, shouldn't you kind-of want the "bad guys" to start borrowing your ideas? That should make things less-bad when they win, right? As far as I can tell, the problem, apart from Trump winning, was that he didn't do enough of this Bannonesque stuff, and instead remained too-much a (typical, apart from the incompetence) Big Business Republican.
      - pydry 5y ago
        ?? This is the two wings of the business party arguing over which one of them better represents actual people. Yeah, Trump attempted some left wing populist rhetoric just before he won but it was just rhetoric.
        FooBarBizBazz 5y ago

pfkurtz 5y ago

Yeah I know. I wish more people noticed that the most powerful people keep being left out of diagnoses of our problems.