On Thu, Feb 5, 2026 at 08:40 PM, Charles wrote: > > It is quite common for people to stick with a party identification, out of > inertia as much as anything, while deciding each contest on its > particulars.
The development of class and political consciousness is a gradual and uneven process. While some may vacillate, when workers opt to desert a party which is popularly identified as hostile to unions and social movements in favour of a party widely understood to be sympathetic to them, their movement tends to be permanent. All the more so in a society which has become highly polarized and its politics more bitterly partisan. We may be witnessing the early beginnings of such movement in the stunning NYC and Texas results. If I believed that the development of working class political consciousness was as tenuous and uncertain as you suggest, I wouldn't have spent a lifetime promoting it. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#40538): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/40538 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/117601828/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
