basquebromance
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The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy (which i'm reading right now and will post excerpts of on this thread) is a key text. At its heart is a critique of meritocracy. “The general course of recent history,” Lasch writes, “no longer favors the leveling of social distinctions but runs more and more in the direction of a two-class society in which the favored few monopolize the advantages of money, education, and power.” The book has at times been appropriated by thinkers on the Right as an endorsement of their strategy of fomenting resentment toward liberal elites. (In 2017, Steve Bannon, then still in the White House, was reported to be reading it.) But such interpretations misplace the emphasis of Lasch’s arguments, much as the cover of his book does, printing the first half of its title in much larger type than the second half.
jacobin.com
The Hopeful Dystopian
On the enduring appeal of Christopher Lasch — on both the Left and Right.
jacobin.com
