Basically:-
- Complains that Marx is just too obscure/complicated for his liberal know-nothing peabrain. (in a earlier version of the article, lets slip that he's definitely lying about having read anything written by Marx)
- Gets a "Babby's First Marxist Analysis" explanation of economic class contradiction from Ken Loach, and immediately thinks he's completely disproven Marx by asking "what about Premier League footballers though?".
- References an LSE/BBC study about class in Britain that that places crude social and cultural signifiers on equal standing with a deliberate misunderstanding of economic relations - apparently, your economic class has all to do with your income level, whether you're a homeowner, and your savings, and nothing at all to do with how you earn a living - and acts surprised when it makes him feel confused about his own class position. And this is after he already admits earlier in the article that judging class through "superficial markers" is "prejudice and almost certainly wrong".
- Gets a slightly more in-depth explanation of the Marxist conception of the petit-bourgeoisie, and how petit-bourgeois people like him are increasingly being proletarianised by neoliberalism, but then dismisses the entire idea because being petit-bourgeois is not as romantic as being working class, and because it makes him feel "parasitic".
Joint-Dictatorship of the ~~Proletariat~~ Pierrots of Oppressed Nations
She's just foreshadowing her pick for Secretary of Defence.
Yup. It's all either the most cliched sinophobic meming you've seen, bitching about traffic caused by Xi's presidential convoy (kinda reasonable I guess because they're closing off or redirecting something like 17 highways, but it's just 3 days), or getting performatively offended because the state visit got headline & special pullout coverage in the Chinese & state-linked newspapers (they're making a minor fuss that a long-planned state visit is overshadowing ex-PM Abdullah Badawi's sudden passing, but who the fuck cares about the guy who was basically Malaysian Sleepy Joe - a mostly ineffectual centre-right figurehead propped up by and upholding a wider reactionary establishment political apparatus, who is now somehow retrospectively praised by liberals because he's supposedly an improvement over a more disruptive and proactively-right-wing/authoritarian predecessor; and (ii) the guy died at like 7pm local time; papers have already gone to press, literally just wait one day lah you entitled babies).