I don't know why people are so shaky about calling the class war what it is. I remember this being a big issue during the Obama era, Republicans accusing his proposal to raise taxes as "class warfare". It's like Warren Buffet said: "There's class warfare, all right, but it's my class, the rich class, that's making war, and we're winning.”
I don't disagree. I only commented on a thing he was quoted on in the article.
An awful lot of the energy in left wing intellectual circles has always come from what Lenin called "useful idiots" and this guy is no different.
Objectifying things as class war is a mechanism to cast the warrior into the bad set basically. I suspect he said it, because he doesn't want it dismissed by some readers on the basis thats his place. I don't personally think it invalidates the writing.
“Framing issues as class warfare is often a tactic used to portray those fighting for change as the villains.” imho is a lot clearer than "Objectifying things as class war is a mechanism to cast the warrior into the bad set basically."
We should stop using the mannerisms of social sciences majors in our speech, words like objectifying, empowering just make things more hermetic.
