[hnuser77]

I think the author's take would be that the working class can radicalize all they want, but it probably won't change anything without the support of a significant part of the 10%-0.1%. I wish he had gone into detail on why he thinks the upper-middle class is required to effect political change. Is it because they have just enough capital? Or maybe they are closer to and more familiar with institutional power?

[kingkawn]

Because his class consciousness is with them so he sees their participation as pivotal to anything taking root across the whole of society because they are how he relates to the whole of society

[kaycebasques]

It’s also not a coincidence that this thread has 400 comments

[throwaway100773]

Well said.

[jacobush]

You can't run the world without them. (Yet, barring some sci-fi hell dystopia.) That's why.