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The left: from working to wokeing class

23 April 2018

12:12 PM

23 April 2018

12:12 PM

A fascinating graph from British academic Matthew Goodwin:

As Goodwin comments, “Social democrats made a gamble that they could target the highly educated middle class and that workers had nowhere else to go. They lost that gamble.”

Gramsci was right: you control the means of cultural production – such as universities – and you will eventually control the state.

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