Left-wing populists must unite heterogeneous class fractions without a stable base

Evidence

This renders the task of left-wing antipolitical actors—Sanders, Corbyn, Tsipras, Iglesias—considerably more difficult. In the twenty-first century, they can no longer rely solely on the working class but must instead unify divergent, loosely left-aligned class fractions: politicized millennials, segments of the new petty bourgeoisie, ideally even some conservative-leaning milieus, united under a hegemonic project. — Anton Jäger, Hyperpolitics, 210

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Left solidarity requires heterogeneous coalition rather than unity or horizontalism — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1743; Populism builds cross-class coalitions while socialism centers one sovereign class — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment: The Left After the…, 75