Description:
The People Are Not One is a manifesto for a post-populist left willing to confront fragmentation and reconstruct class power.
Review Quotes:
Writing in the great Marxist tradition of class analysis associated with thinkers such as Nicos Poulantzas, Ellen Meiksins Wood, and Mike Davis, Tutt and Varn detail the dangers of a left populist political strategy that seeks to displace class struggle (and the struggle of the oppressed in general) by subsuming all workers within a political matrix dominated by the petty bourgeoisie or middle class. This is a work for our time; one that is ultimately as significant in its implications for the fight against so-called right populism as in its opposition to left populist strategies.
John Bellamy Foster, author of Breaking the Bonds of Fate: Epicurus and Marx
"The left populism that emerged from Eurocommunism via Gorz, Laclau and Mouffe, and so on, has proved to be a dead-end for the left: mere branding opportunities for left-talking political careerists. By deprioritising class it has given up the working class to the right-populists. Daniel Tutt and C Derick Varn attempt to engage the theoretical arguments, and to think seriously about what reconstructing a working class socialist movement (or a socialist labor movement) could mean. An important project."
Mike Macnair, author Revolutionary Strategy: Marxism and the Challenge of Left Unity