From: Yoshie Furuhashi
It is difficult enough (even for committed leftists, much less for others) to portray a relatively accurate picture of the relation between social classes in the United States; it is even more difficult to do so with regard to the relation between classes in other nations. For instance, at the heyday of American anxiety about the US-Japanese economic relation, terms such as "Japan, Inc." was often used (across the political spectrum), in effect ideologically effacing the class contradiction within Japan, making it difficult to consider solidarity between US and Japanese workers in the age of increased international economic competition.
^^^^^ CB: It was made even more difficult by the fact that lots of U.S. workers, encouraged by union leaders like in the UAW, used the conception of "Japan, Inc.", and even worse terminology. In other words, lots of U.S. workers thought and acted in a racist, class collaborationist way, in cohoots with the U.S. bourgeoisie.
Remember Vicent Chin ! (Chinese American)