This article resonates with me. So often you hear in contemporary - TopicsExpress

This article resonates with me. So often you hear in contemporary political discourse, which I follow closely and critically, working class people being problematised and stigmatised. We dont really get to talk much about ourselves precisely as working class people in this country. But we get talked about politically in ways that are familiarly dehumanising, and are closely associated with the tropes that are reinforced by shows like Renters and Police Ten 7. This discourse is usually highly racialised and gendered, reflecting the actually existing racial and gender power structures that permeate the class structure. Working class people internalise these tropes and aggressively negative depictions of working class lives, and choose not to identify with our class, but to abandon it in the name of ambition or a brighter future (and very often with it, our families and traditions), and fail to recognize our common interests as a class, or as women, or as indigenous people, or as members of the different communities we identify with. Fail to develop class consciousness. And thats precisely what we need if we are to come together to fight for our communities, for good work, and for the chance to finally build and maintain a flourishing, prosperous, resilient democratic civilisation. You hear the Labour Party, for example, speaking of the need to reconnect with working people. The million that preferred self-imposed disfranchisement to voting for the Labour Party, and the many more workers who are disillusioned with Labours lack of vision, lack of skill, and lack of courage to take on not just National, but the global power structure. The Labour Party was never internationalist, but a chauvinist party (in the Orthodox Marxist sense), repressed by the colonial sensibilities of its white membership. The Labour Party is no longer a working class party, but a bureaucratised middle class party. Thats why its messaging is so confused, and policy platform so weak. They arent us. They dont know us. And day by day they grow to care less and less about us, and more and more about their personal power, ambition, and wealth.

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