Conservatives Aren’t Serious About Empowering the Working Class (newrepublic.com)

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A new manifesto by the nonprofit American Compass capably identifies the problems facing the working class but stumbles on the solutions—especially labor unions.

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[-] Sooperstition@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

They’re producerists ([https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/producerism](followers of producerism)

Class collaborators with another coat of paint. The danger is that some of their ideas are good, like clawing back banker bonuses and sectoral bargaining. This can peel off the working class to support fascists.

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