Class politics today operates by constructing working-class experience as the mediating core of coalitions

Evidence

As hapless postmodern standardbearers have occasionally accused me of “disavowing” the non-class-based movements and have recommended the Rainbow Coalition instead, 2° it ought to be noted here that the Jackson experience is exemplary in this respect, inasmuch as he rarely makes a speech in which working-class experience is not “constructed” as the mediation around which the equivalence of the coalition is to find its active cohesion. But this is very precisely what is meant by the rhetoric of class politics and the language of totalization, an operation which Jackson has virtually reinvented for our time in the political area. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 715

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the modern-election analysis the reader wants for explaining postmodern politics concretely — Rainbow Coalition as named historical example. — connects to: Populism builds cross-class coalitions while socialism centers one sovereign class — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment: The Left After the…, 75; A person’s social position shapes how they build coalitions. — Silke Roth, Intersectionality and coalitions in…, 86
• SEED: An essay angle: Jackson’s coalition ‘reinvented totalization’ — a concrete test case for whether the cultural-dominant thesis is falsifiable in electoral politics.