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i mean it's really a style more than coherent set of policies. my vulgar marxist take is that it's arising in the core empire because the market (objective forces) crushed labor so it doesn't really need to divide workers as much as it used to. that coincided with granting some political demands to oppressed social formations (women, people of color, LGBT, etc.). the dominant social/political formations in these countries (typically white men) are also seeing that capital no longer strictly needs to buy them off any more -- they can be proletarianized -- and so they are fighting a rearguard action to try and stop this process through a revanchist campaign targeting the social formations which draw their ire (women, people of color, immigrants, LGBT, etc.). basically, right-wing populism. can also see this with brexit where you have leave voters saying "well, i didn't know it would be this bad, but i would still vote for it today because there are too many immigrants." they privilege the subjective (nation, culture, identity) over the objective (the market), and would rather sit on top of a pile of ruins as long as they get to be on top. this puts these other social formations in the unenviable position of defending the status quo which both exploits them and is less oppressive than the revanchist, right-wing campaign making them into a target. once again evidence that capitalism will eventually destroy itself. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVbShUW6QBM
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