On Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 12:09 PM, Louis Proyect wrote:

I haven't read Nagle but I've heard a lot about being "hostile to the working class" from Adolph Reed Jr. who refused $2000 from American Affairs because she had written an article there. He referred to her as a fascist but that was an exaggeration.

I don't know if you are referring to some other time Reed discussed Nagle, but in the Katie Halper interview, Reed does not say he turned down the $2,000 because of Nagle, and he does not call her a fascist.

We hear a lot about them in leftist discourses (of the North American variety).  Who are they?  We don’t know.  We only know them as rhetorical devices for online persuasion, as instruments to berate competitors in the marketplace of ideas.

If fluctuates between this and outright demonization, such as when their bourgeois presidential candidate loses the election.

I don't think it can be argued that the left, as it exists today in the United States, defends workers as workers. Nagle's piece on open borders is more of an analysis of one of the ways in which this is true. Her position needs to be examined, in a ruthless-criticism-of-everything sort of way, because what exists today only benefits the ruling class.