It follows that the middle class uprisings, if they wish sincerely to make a difference to the people’s lives, have to contend with the hegemony of the corporate-financial oligarchy through a concrete economic agenda, which can then form the basis of a worker-middle class-peasant alliance (akin to the “worker-peasant alliance” of old). Such an agenda, even when it is confined to “Welfare State” measures, if it remains true to itself, will necessarily have to take recursive steps that lead towards a transcendence of capitalism... Closing one’s eyes to these, as middle class uprisings tend to do, only undermines one’s project if it is at all emancipatory; it does not lead to any breaking of new ground.
Posted on: Mon, 01 Dec 2014 14:57:09 +0000