[lbo-talk] Identity vs. class politics

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sat Jan 27 09:05:52 PST 2007


On Jan 27, 2007, at 8:19 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:


> Americans never had "a class-based politics" independent of white
> supremacy, so they couldn't have taken flight from what they didn't
> have.

Never is a slight overstatement. There have been moments - some of the populists, for example. Not all, for sure, but some. Recalling that is a nice antidote to hopelessness, which is always very tempting.

Doug



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