{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "Highlights from Bromma's \u201cThe Worker Elite: Notes on the Labour Aristocracy\u201d", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/110504127683/", "html": "<a href=\"http://marxism-third-worldism.tumblr.com/post/109584442038/highlights-from-brommas-the-worker-elite-notes\">Highlights from Bromma's \u201cThe Worker Elite: Notes on the Labour Aristocracy\u201d</a>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http://marxism-third-worldism.tumblr.com/post/109584442038/highlights-from-brommas-the-worker-elite-notes\" target=\"_blank\">marxism-third-worldism</a>:</p><blockquote><p>The worker elite has three main functions within modern imperialism.<br/><br/><b>1.</b> First of all, it serves as an active buffer between the ruling class and the proletariat. This function has several aspects:</p>\n<ul><li>A. The worker elite absorbs and co-opts proletarian struggle. When proletarian insurgency grows,\u2026</li></ul></blockquote>\n\n<p>The funniest thing about the libertarian -&gt; neoreactionary pipeline is looking at these guys being like \u201cwhat we need is an elite-run government insulated from electoral demagoguery, in coalition with a <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestication#Tame_or_domesticated\" target=\"_blank\">tame</a> academy, industry, priesthood, capital and civil society dedicated to patriarchy, anticommunism, skilled labor, and at least lowercase white nationalism\u201d and thinking \u201cman, remember when you defined your politics <i>against</i> the New Deal state?\u201d</p>"}