Revisiting my review of Michael Lind's book, The New Class War:
“Today’s populism is a counterculture, not a counterestablishment. A counterculture defines itself in opposition to the establishment. A counterestablishment wants to be the establishment."https://t.co/Wd1DogaqUUpic.twitter.com/xyoH92UFgo
Thank you for this. I wondered what had become of Lind when I noticed there were only very old articles in my news reader. Now I know where he is so I can update my links. Good to see that he is back with a new book. Just finished listening Ezra Klein's interview with Lind discussing it. I rarely listen to podcasts (they are not compatible with my ADD) but found this one worth the extra time and effort. Link to it below:
ah Emma, you remind me of the good ole days @ pre-2008 TPMCafe when you and I were part of a very very small group who found columnist Michael Lind's thinking intriguing. (If I recall correctly, he was not so much hated as the neo-libs were, but rather, just ignored. )
This caused me to do a quick "what the heck, lets try it) search on Twitter and I see there is a recent interview with him @ medium.com May 15!
"The Democratic and Republican parties were actually federations of local and state clubs. They were membership organizations. Now, they’re just labels that billionaires like Trump and Bloomberg can try to purchase.” — Michael Lind https://t.co/ZNhCF1nmyA
But it was really elitist to give extra powers to people who put time into building these parties -
everyone should be equal, including independents and people who don't vote - that's democracy.
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Thank you for this. I wondered what had become of Lind when I noticed there were only very old articles in my news reader. Now I know where he is so I can update my links. Good to see that he is back with a new book. Just finished listening Ezra Klein's interview with Lind discussing it. I rarely listen to podcasts (they are not compatible with my ADD) but found this one worth the extra time and effort. Link to it below:
https://www.vox.com/podcasts/2019/11/7/20953412/trump-michael-lind-china-class-war
by EmmaZahn on Sun, 05/17/2020 - 4:33am
ah Emma, you remind me of the good ole days @ pre-2008 TPMCafe when you and I were part of a very very small group who found columnist Michael Lind's thinking intriguing. (If I recall correctly, he was not so much hated as the neo-libs were, but rather, just ignored.
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This caused me to do a quick "what the heck, lets try it) search on Twitter and I see there is a recent interview with him @ medium.com May 15!
by artappraiser on Sun, 05/17/2020 - 2:19pm
But it was really elitist to give extra powers to people who put time into building these parties -
everyone should be equal, including independents and people who don't vote - that's democracy.
by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 05/17/2020 - 6:31pm
The Sanders argument is that he does not have to belong to a party to be it's leader. If actual Democrats voted against him, the primary wasn't fair.
by rmrd0000 on Sun, 05/17/2020 - 7:00pm