*The Wrong Level of Abstraction: A Reply to Paul Le Blanc* Anthony P. Teso
The Wrong Level of Abstraction: A Reply to Paul Le Blanc Paul Le Blanc’s “Defining Trumpism, defeating Trump” is a significant contribution from a dedicated comrade, and I want to start by outlining our substantial areas of agreement. ¹ We agree that Trump is a symptom rather than a disease, that Trumpism will outlast the man, and that the regime is not yet a fascist one in any rigorous sense. The Democratic Party's decades-long abandonment of its working-class base helped create Trump, and at some point, liberal anti-Trump allies become more part of the problem than the solution. We agree that the radicalizing layer is a precarious and expanding working class and that the “mandate” Trump claims is a razor-thin fiction. On the conjunction, Le Blanc and I are largely on the same side of the same barricade. -- Teso_Reply-to-Le-Blanc_LINKS.docx ( https://1drv.ms/w/c/c3598b38f68269be/IQAGcTzb8xGhRJ9FqnATORzxAX83Wt__Ll22fiJF5tD5OMg?e=P14Iml ) Tony -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#41956): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/41956 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/119670669/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
