Social democracy collapses when no one represents the labouring side

Evidence

On this new political stage, social democracy is impossible. We no longer have capital on the one side and labour on the other, allowing a social democratic government to play referee and force the two sides into a compromise. Instead we have a centre and an alt-right both in thrall to a new ruling class, the cloudalists, whose rise to power they have enabled, while the left is preoccupied with a civil war on the definition of ‘woman’, on the hierarchy of oppressions and all the rest. Meanwhile, no one speaks for the cloud proles, the cloud serfs, the vassal capitalists, what is left of the traditional proletariat-precariat, the victims of climate change, the masses that technofeudalism stifles and imprisons in its cloud fiefs. — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism, 674

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth chasing: does this diagnosis of a ‘civil war on the definition of woman’ accurately describe the actual electoral left, or does it overstate the Left’s fragmentation?
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism, 674
• XREF: connects to: De-industrialisation fragmented labour and replaced class struggle with identity politics — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism, 672; Even failed political struggles confer social recognition as agents.; Structural corruption leads to democratic failure and social domination. — David E Pozen; Michael Schudson, Troubling Transparency- The History and…, 1523 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• De-industrialisation fragmented labour and replaced class struggle with identity politics #exemplifies (0.75) — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism, 672
• Even failed political struggles confer social recognition as agents. #complicates (0.72)
• Structural corruption leads to democratic failure and social domination. #qualifies (0.72) — David E Pozen; Michael Schudson, Troubling Transparency- The History and…, 1523