Thoughts on production, alienation, and ideology
The DSA recently interviewed Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC). And then the World Socialist Web Site (WSWS) criticized AOC from the left. Note for the curious: the WSWS is a small Trotskyist news site. As we’ll see, the WSWS offered less an informed critique than a string of informal fallacies.
But that comes later. For now, let’s take a look at AOC and her politics. What can we learn from the DSA interview and WSWS response?
People often talk about money or class standing in a political argument. But I’m not referring in this post to liberal elitism. Nor am I talking about the even more brazen, ‘I have more money than you, therefore I’m better’ kind of thing.
Rather, I want to focus on more subtle ideas. And ones found primarily on the political left. Leftists will appeal to money or class status when discrediting certain kinds of views or people.
Many readers know I like to set a common theme for the year. For this year’s theme, I chose value and the corporate workplace, a topic I’ve also written about in prior years. So far, I’ve hit this theme in a number of ways. But one way I might summarize it all? Work won’t love you back.
Imagine my surprise, then, when I found out labor journalist Sarah Jaffe recently wrote a book called Work Won’t Love You Back.
Let’s take a look at Jaffe’s book.
I’ve written posts about both my first and second shots of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine. I’ll follow up on that a bit. Tomorrow’s the big day: two weeks since my second shot!
I’m excited to finally be at what feels like the ‘end’ of at least a major phase in the pandemic. I have a long list of things I’d like to do. But, first, I’m going to visit my parents tomorrow!
How about you?
Political parties in the U.S. are huge. They put together large coalitions with enormous platforms. As a result, they take on many popular issues and a few unpopular ones. Given these facts, we might think each party has a worst political issue. You know, something that drags them down and prevents them from building larger coalitions.
That’s what I’ll look at in this post. What’s the worst political issue for each party? I think the question has an answer, and I’ll defend one for both Republicans and Democrats.
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