This is very interesting and more data-driven than you might think from the title. Also comes up with an actual idea what centre-left parties could do to build a new coalition. No idea if this would work, but at least it's something constructive #farright #Germany #btw25
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@lwestheuser.bsky.social @thomaslux.bsky.social
... but I notice they still do that thing a lot of people do where they just start from the premise that "everyone who identifies as working class should be on the left, if they don't it must be a recent political failure of left parties"
The article content literally contradicts the title!
(i) not include a clear historical baseline (in the UK, ~30-40% of the "working class" were always Conservative voters)
(ii) not include basic breakdown of what the composition of historical left-WC and right-WC was and how that's changed
"Right-WC" were traditionally people in non-unionised private sector/self-employed.
... when what they mean is "a form of class-based politics *overriding the differences in material interest that were a barried in 60/70s*".
People on the Right cert. have no prob saying the opposite!