Re: Robert Fitch and Derek C. Bok
Seth Ackerman wrote:
These are hard questions that we all have to ask. But it has to be pointed out that in the absence of “working class movements,” it’s not only the forms of organization that would change but the goals. It may be possible to have progressive social movements without the working class, but they won’t be social movements with the goal of radically reducing inequality, for example. If you give up on the working class, you’re giving up on certain hallowed desiderata in the process.
Well, since most of us are working class (except me, I’m petit bourgeois), any broad progressive movement would have to be domianted by the working class. But I suspect a lot of us have a more race- and gender-integrated cast that still bears a lot of resemblance to the horny-handed sons of toil in the backs of our minds.
Doug