> Here's a game: Name a country in the OECD. (Exclude the new
> semi-periperal memebrs - Mexico, Korea, etc.) Then name an era in the last
> 150 years when class consciousness and mobilization in that country
> were lower.
By any definition of mobilization, the US in the 1920s, Europe from 1848 to 1945, and Meiji Japan had far less working-class consciousness and mobilization than they do today, and even the limited forms of mobilizations they had were saturated with patriarchy, xenophobia and racism.
I don't mean to diminish the reality of neoliberalism. But the regression happening in the US really isn't shared by the rest of the industrialized world.
-- DRR