You need to come from a loud and disputatious working-class family (is there any other kind?) to get it.
That's true to a point. And reflects my parents' background. But, it loses its impact when future generations become educated and move out of being working class unless they move into public sector professions.
Interesting reading about the Narodniks (hadn't heard of them - thanks). But don't most progressive movements need to come from, or be facilitated by, an intellectual class - the suffragettes, Jarrow March? The "don't patronise and just reflect what they (the "white working class") want" stance of Caroline Flint, Melanie Onn and Laura Smith hasn't worked for them (the MPs).
This is interesting from wiki:
Feminism in the Narodnik movement was also hard for the peasantry to accept. Pre-Marxist revolutionaries believed in an unusually strong equality of sex, and educated noblewomen played major roles in radical movements in the latter decades of the nineteenth century. Russian revolutionary literature in the 1840s and 1850s linked the causes of emancipation of serfs with the emancipation of the Russian woman—this literature was manifest in the Narodnik movement. The Narodniks promulgated Chernyshevskyan ideas of chaste cohabitation—that men and women should live together with no sexual interactions—and gender equality. These concepts were extremely odd to most peasants, and they did not generally react well to them. Furthermore, Narodniks often lived in communes where non-married men and women slept and lived in the same rooms. To Orthodox Russian peasants in the 1870s, such disregard of gender norms were both offensive and off-putting. When you consider the fact that nearly 60% of Narodnik women were from wealthy classes it becomes clear why the Russian peasant could not relate to most intellectuals in the movement intellectually, economically or socially.[17] Historian Dmitri Pisarev writes that “sensing their inability to act alone, the intelligent radical made the peasantry the instrument to realize their hopes.” The peasants did not readily welcome being a vessel for the revolutionaries. The Narodniks believed that the peasants were the class in Russia most prone to revolution, yet the peasants were not ready for revolutionary action.[18]