At the top, repeating thumbnail images of the cover of Nordic Socialism, set at an angle. Then photos of Pelle Dragsted, Bhaskar Sunkara, and Eric Blanc. And then text reading "Pelle Dragsted in conversation with Bhaskar Sunkara and Eric Blanc, August 5, 2025, 7-8:30 PM, SCANDINAVIA HOUSE, 58 Park Ave, NYC." And then the logos for Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung NY office and University of Wisconsin Press
New York: Scandinavia House will host @pelledragsted.bsky.social in conversation with @sunraysunray.bsky.social and @ericblanc.bsky.social on 8/5, as part of Pelle's book tour. Details and (free) registration: tinyurl.com/yuefrb2x
Many thanks to @rosaluxnyc.bsky.social for supporting Pelle's tour.
17.07.2025 13:38 — 👍 7 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
Photos of people listening to a talk about the German election results.
Photos of people listening to a talk about the German election results.
Photos of people listening to a talk about the German election results.
The success of @die-linke.de also gives hope in the US! Sofia Leonidakes from @dielinkebremen.bsky.social talked to @sunraysunray.bsky.social at our joint RLS NYC and @jacobinmag.bsky.social event about the strategy behind it.
28.02.2025 18:15 — 👍 11 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1
The Age of Class Dealignment
Over the course of decades, social democracy abandoned workers. Then workers abandoned social democracy.
“After attempting and failing to borrow its way out of the crisis, social democracy eventually responded to the charge that social democracy itself was at the root of the economic crisis by wholeheartedly agreeing.”
Great work from @sunraysunray.bsky.social jacobin.com/2024/11/deal...
22.11.2024 14:31 — 👍 10 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
The essay explicitly talks about the working class becoming more credentialed due to economic shifts. And discusses in incredibly orthodox terms the recomposition of the working class (and the role of the means of production shaping it).
23.11.2024 20:41 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Any academic knows that income/education are common proxies we're forced to deal with.
But they still tell us a lot. It's worth noting that CWCP operationalized Wright's class schemas in studies and we found very similar results to using education (which will likely become less effective over time)
23.11.2024 20:41 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
And you had no response to what I said at length about your distortion of both that essay as a whole and this particular point:
1. This was a quick use of exit polls with education as a proxy for class, since CNN doesn't ask people their relationship to the means of production.
23.11.2024 20:41 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Glad to hear it, I'm grateful!
23.11.2024 17:34 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I'm not sure where in the world you would get this idea from, but I've organized with teachers before and worked on an entire activist teachers' guide with the CTU's CORE. What a bizarre reference.
23.11.2024 17:34 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Born too late for the Windies glory days. Born too early for the US cricket glory days :-(
20.11.2024 01:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Who says it does? bsky.app/profile/sunr...
20.11.2024 00:58 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Social Democracy After Class?
Oct. 17, 2024
Here's the full essay on class dealignment and what it's meant for both social democracy and its stunted New Deal cousin: theideasletter.substack.com/p/social-dem...
20.11.2024 00:58 — 👍 12 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
2. The essay explicitly talks about the working class becoming more credentialed due to economic shifts.
The OP was before the election, but the results should make it even harder to be a dealignment denier. There's no doubt that Harris also lost ground among the college-educated working class.
20.11.2024 00:58 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Fwiw, Center for Working-Class Politics literally operationalized E.O. Wright's class schemas in studies and we found very similar results to using education (which will likely become less effective over time).
Any academic knows that income and education are the common proxies we're forced to use
20.11.2024 00:58 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Very silly, since I've written extensively on the Marxist understanding of class & this essay is about 150 years of shifts in working-class parties 🧵
1. This is a quick use of exit polls with education as a proxy for class, since CNN doesn't ask people their relationship to the means of production.
20.11.2024 00:58 — 👍 12 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 1
