Re: Identity vs. class politics
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