Slate Star Codex joins the class co-option project

Right populists, the Post Left, and libertarians are all playing the same game.

At the end of last year, I warned that

while the two parties of capital remain overwhelmingly hostile towards Marxist thought, they have nevertheless gained a marginal stake in pandering — at least superficially — to voters who are sympathetic to it. This is why we have what socialists often call “sheepdog media”… For obvious historical and cultural rea…