I always feel like I'm hanging out in a punk/hardcore music scene (various anarchist groups, psl to some extent) or with lame improv nerds (dsa). I don't see either of these groups connecting with very many working class people. This is obviously a huge problem but (at least where I am) there is very little attempt to organize or recruit people making minimum wage, fast food workers, service industry, manual laborers etc. I mean shouldn't this be the main priority right now? I don't know I'm just venting but I'm baffled by how bad at organizing these groups are. Do they really just like being this cliquey group that is hard to get into and that's what really matters?
I think part of Matt "Material Conditions" Christman's take on college vs. non college is spot on. There is a very real bougie-adjacent air of nobility to lots of the left smarts that keeps them from actualizing a real class-based analysis. Whether they went to college is honestly irrelevant, but they all give off cultural semaphore, the way these folks speak, the hand gestures they use, the fucking board games they play on game night, it's just a big fucking nerd soup and so few have a """real""" revolutionary analysis because they are all ultimately comfortable or feel just cool enough gaining prestige points in their culture bank accounts.