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Elijah Emery on Christopher Lasch and the Contemporary Left, part 1

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The Limitations of the American Left

A lot of the strategies that he's talking about are not designed for a non-parliamentary democracy and so it's just not dealt with. A real absence of genuine from the ground up social movements a really weak labor union structure which is uh you know i know i know we talk about the revival of of public sector unions but they aren't on the upswing. The lesson isn't labor unions are on the up swing it's that in particular sectors where highly educated people have become concentrated because of a dearth of jobs their own relative precarity enables them to try to make good on the ideological promises of so-called progressive companies, she says.

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