People should read some 19th century leftist writing to discover that both working class and rural reactionary politics are not, um, exactly new phenomena.
Vanguardism emerged for a reason!
Vanguardism emerged for a reason!
You can find a great intro to these debates via @mikeduncan in his phenomenal Revolutions Podcast on the Russian Revolution. You can skip the Russia-specific stuff and focus on the early stuff about Marx and Bakunin, and then there's a lot more later around Lenin v Kautsky.
It's obviously a *wildly* different set of circumstances but there are some real unmistakeable echoes.
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