Thread by @freedaaron

Obviously @lionel_trolling's framework of the "Sorelian left" fits perfectly here, though I'll add that it's so ironic that this phenomenon is almost entirely constrained to members of the professional class, who degrade their opponents as being too "PMC."

https://twitter.com/themattdimitri/status/1364074096871436291

I go back and forth on whether there is an interesting story about the social composition of this "Sorelian left"—is there a meaningful journey we can trace in Greenwald, Taibbi, Mate, Jilani, Fang, etc that offers insight into their formation? Or are they just cranks?

I guess that, while I find the "Sorelian left" a powerful framework, I also want to understand WHY it has come into existence, exercising some real influence among leftist and some mainstream discourse (re: cancel culture, wokeness). What are its social origins?

Especially since creative professionals are so central to the re-emergence of the contemporary Gramscian and Sorelian lefts