The Digger

I feel indebted to Paul Street for his 2007 essays' debunking the faux progressivism of conservative shyster Barack Obama. On this occasion I didn't read any further than the excerpt below, feeling that Paul should spend more time reading and analyzing rather than prolifically regurgitating what appears to amount to half-baked gatekeeper tropes. It maybe that a surprise is lurking deeper within this piece. I doubt it. For my part I find Alan Woods' Marxist analysis of the balance of forces    The Digger: In Defense of Marxism, Topic: The French elections: a collapse of the status quo  far more compelling. Excerpt: "Two very different “populisms” that have arisen in response to neoliberal capitalism in the West. A left-leaning social-democratic  “progressive populism”  targets the capitalist concentration of wealth and power and the unbridled pursuit of private profit as enemies of the people and the common good.  This populism is egalitarian a...

I have two Aussies, excellent herders. If Marxists were sheep my Aussies would prove useless. So here is Alan Woods* commenting on the "gilets jaunes' movement and he sounds nothing like the several self-identified "Marxists" who are embracing the capitalist politics of division, which finds them nasally railing against 90% of the (lumpenproles?)working class, in several threads at The Digger, with (irrational?)passion and gusto. and  * Alan Woods  (born 23 October 1944) [1]  is a British  Trotskyist   political theorist  and author. [2]  He is one of the  leading  members of the  International Marxist Tendency  (IMT), as well as of its British affiliate group  Socialist Appeal . [3]  He is political editor of the IMT's  In Defence of Marxism  website. Woods was a leading supporter within the  Militant tendency  within the UK  Labour Party  and its parent group the  Co...