hey,
only an analytical 'footnote', or pointer – but I was looking at the
interesting article Flick referenced. and just had to think of David
Graeber´s analytical digestion attempt, trying to grapple with the Tory
win in UK.
... and there is probably no need in stressing the
strategical/configurational similarities btw. the way
'post-establishment' – or, rather: crypto-establishment – politics
unfurl in USA & UK (both being – by way of their national(ist)
characteristics/configuration – 'post-'colonial death flowers in
relation to the trajectory of classical industrial-capitalist 'modernity'.
... any way, not getting into that :-) – but really just pointing to the
talk/presentation and analysis of Graeber in this context(who also
mentions US political and socio-economic tectonics), as I think it is
helpful for deeper reconstruction of this bizarre blooming.
From Managerial Feudalism to the Revolt of the Caring Classes presented
by David Graeber in Chaos Communication Congress:
http://opentranscripts.org/transcript/managerial-feudalism-revolt-caring-classes/
One thing it brings is a linkage between demographics and social and
political analytics, extending and deepening the perspective brought
forward in the Guardian-piece.
Maybe the only one thing/thought I´d attach, sensing 'the drift of the
discussion' here (and of some related preceding ones; as 'we have been
here' before): while the extenstion of the socio-political question to
'categories'/'logics'/'legacies' (= politics) of
race/(Zombie-)colonialism is essential, a reduction of the social
conundrum to it would also deal 'us' a lacking frame of political
reference.
I am sure some others here have some good references at their fingertips
about how to integrate post-/de-colonial perspective – particularly in
the case of USA & UK – with an up-to-date class-politics, and I am
looking forward to hints... it´s a monumental task to develop that
anyways...
... meanwhile, for me Graeber names some essential pieces/bits that
belong into any such progressive-analytical equation.
best to all!
oliver
Flick Harrison schrieb am 8.1.2021 um 20:23:
The fact that you port them into a representation of “poor white
Americans” suggests a leap of logic that isn’t supported by facts.
Trump / Republican supporters skew higher-income.
<https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/nov/05/us-election-demographics-race-gender-age-biden-trump>
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