
Is This the Left that Jacobin Wants?: Chris Maisano’s Perilous Drift Towards Post-Marxism
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The Left's Prejudiced Concept of Class Formation
My sono's flawed conception of class formation is based on an erasure of the concept of a scientifically defined proletariat. He does not see class consciousness as stemming from the collective interests and capacities of proletarian, but rather as an identity that can be cultivated in a scattershot manner among an amorphous cross-class mass. My sono's first failure is his unwillingness to understand why organizing the proletariat has a fundamental and primary role in any meaningful conception of class Formation. It's not only results from his rejection of the primary source of genuine class consciousness, proletarian organization, but his related failure to reckon with the difficulties of producing class consciousness through electoral politics. While the social struggles of an organized