Last year’s elections saw a resurgence for Germany’s socialist party Die Linke. In an interview, coleader Ines Schwerdtner explains how the party is seeking to expand beyond current left-wing voters to reach broader parts of the working class.
I consider this an anti-intellectualist take. I don’t agree this is the root cause.
There is professionalization of the sciences in the context of capitalism, and other forces driving academic endeavours. Including military funding for example. But being educated means also understand the principles of constitutional democracy. This is the main reason anti-intellectualism is the breeding ground for authoritarianism, the very reason this thread exists.
Oh yes, this patronising talk is a big part of why the Left is so popular. Big talk from the high ivory tower, dismissing the life reality of the majority of the working class, and calling them stupid, or anti-intellectual because of a lower formal education.
You know what the working class already does have all day every day, even without that kind of self proclaimed working class movement? Being talked to, and about, condescendingly, and being told what’s best for them by some (quite often actually rather stupid) posh piece of shit claiming to be more intelligent because of some piece of paper, who lives in a different world, and doesn’t give a shit about their life reality.
The funniest part of the oh so intellectual academic left’s fight for the working class is, that with all their deep philosophical understanding of all matters working class, they always keep missing how their talk and pamphlets tend to be in a language the working class struggles to understand. If you need a dictionary to understand a relatively simple political message because it’s full of words only known to the denizens of a social sciences faculty at an institution of higher learning, and, on top of that, have to wrap your head around whatever craziness the current fashion (that changes every other week) of “inclusive” language is sprouting, to even understand anything at all, there is no surprise that the oh so important message doesn’t reach the masses.
I consider this an anti-intellectualist take. I don’t agree this is the root cause.
There is professionalization of the sciences in the context of capitalism, and other forces driving academic endeavours. Including military funding for example. But being educated means also understand the principles of constitutional democracy. This is the main reason anti-intellectualism is the breeding ground for authoritarianism, the very reason this thread exists.
Oh yes, this patronising talk is a big part of why the Left is so popular. Big talk from the high ivory tower, dismissing the life reality of the majority of the working class, and calling them stupid, or anti-intellectual because of a lower formal education.
You know what the working class already does have all day every day, even without that kind of self proclaimed working class movement? Being talked to, and about, condescendingly, and being told what’s best for them by some (quite often actually rather stupid) posh piece of shit claiming to be more intelligent because of some piece of paper, who lives in a different world, and doesn’t give a shit about their life reality.
The funniest part of the oh so intellectual academic left’s fight for the working class is, that with all their deep philosophical understanding of all matters working class, they always keep missing how their talk and pamphlets tend to be in a language the working class struggles to understand. If you need a dictionary to understand a relatively simple political message because it’s full of words only known to the denizens of a social sciences faculty at an institution of higher learning, and, on top of that, have to wrap your head around whatever craziness the current fashion (that changes every other week) of “inclusive” language is sprouting, to even understand anything at all, there is no surprise that the oh so important message doesn’t reach the masses.