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    3 days ago

    I read it as the reverse initially. Thought it was a classic Lemmy take for what looked like a newspaper article. Why- who- how could someone know about the culture war and the class war and draw this conclusion? (Ed: she doesn’t know about the class war, see below)

    Or maybe it’s a bait title and the body makes a completely different point, that’s probably the reason I’m looking at a picture of the title right now and not reading the whole article.

    Edit: the article

    Edit 2: It’s actually a kinda muddled argument she’s making. She’s using “class war” not in the sense a marxist might use, but to describe something a populist party would do, which is turning public anger towards a specific demographic to justify their political actions. She doesn’t want Labour to alienate the richer parts of its voter base by “bashing the most wealthy” or “punishing the rich”. But she doesn’t show that Labour would actually message it like that, just that they have plans that would tax wealthier people more, which seems perfectly Labour-like and not something they would need special messaging to justify. So if Labour wants to pivot away from a culture war and towards actual left-wing policy, that’s not “starting a class war”.