those who saw themselves as potentially in a labor aristocrat class

It's actually interesting, as I saw today the results of the 1987 Polish Referendum, from a country that was deep in crisis for about 7 years and had literal martial law for two years.

Question 1: Do you wish radical economic reforms?

Yes - 66,0% No - 27,7% No Answer - 6,3%

Question 2: Do you wish a deep Democratization of the Political System?

Yes - 69,0% No - 24,6% No Answer - 6,4%

While the results aren't really good, it's better than the abysmal results of the post-1990 polish left.

However, by examining the local level, you can see some interesting stuff.

Voivodeship Łomża (Eastern Poland, Rural)

Question 1: 57,03% YES - 33,73% NO - 9,24% NO ANSWER

Question 2 58,78% YES - 31,73% NO - 9,50% NO ANSWER

Meanwhile in Warsaw

Question 1: 79,36% YES - 17,24% NO - 3,40% NO ANSWER

Question 2 83,04% YES - 13,88% NO - 3,08% NO ANSWER

Showing the better paid (due to industrialization and service economy jobs) and better supplied capital city labor aristocrats being the force least sympathetic to AES in the horribly mismanaged country.

Meanwhile in the GDR, it was East Berlin, Leipzig and the rural East Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (in modern terms) being the strongholds of the SED/PDS in 1990, while the mountainous areas were the ones where counterrevolution, tradition and neofascism reigned supreme.