Like his hero Leon Trotsky during the Russian revolution, contemporary Marxist ideologue Jeff Sparrow has got the irrits with the Trump-voting working classes not being revolting enough.
A noir-clad Sparrow told a draughty Trades Hall hallway at his book launch (Trigger Warnings: Political Correctness and the Rise of the Right) last week that most of the Left still blamed the inertia of the masses for their failure to bring about the downfall of capitalism in the age of Trump.
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