It was first of all the socialist movement that brought attention to "
identity politics " issues - race, gender, sexual orientation - long
before bourgeois politicians " discovered " it for demagogic divide and
conquer purposes.
Even today democratic socialists are more intelligently sensitive to these issues than the neo-liberal Democrats. They connect all forms of inequality to the fundamental reality of CLASS injustice. Just an observation : Donald Trump spoke about " forgotten Americans ".
And who has been more forgotten and invisible in the capitalist news media than poor whites and the white working class ? Its " news " to them that they benefit from generic " white privilege ".
But we expect Donald Trump -like the Hillary Democrats - to focus on the problems of the ONE PERCENT. What is the difference between Wall St. Hillary and plutocrat Donald Trump ? Hillary actually showed more contempt for working class " deplorables " -even pious Catholics.
Neither the Democrats nor the Republicans have a quarrel with exploiting capitalism.They disagree on tactics and strategy for protecting THEIR economic system.Would working class Americans vote for capitalism in a national referendum ?
Even today democratic socialists are more intelligently sensitive to these issues than the neo-liberal Democrats. They connect all forms of inequality to the fundamental reality of CLASS injustice. Just an observation : Donald Trump spoke about " forgotten Americans ".
And who has been more forgotten and invisible in the capitalist news media than poor whites and the white working class ? Its " news " to them that they benefit from generic " white privilege ".
But we expect Donald Trump -like the Hillary Democrats - to focus on the problems of the ONE PERCENT. What is the difference between Wall St. Hillary and plutocrat Donald Trump ? Hillary actually showed more contempt for working class " deplorables " -even pious Catholics.
Neither the Democrats nor the Republicans have a quarrel with exploiting capitalism.They disagree on tactics and strategy for protecting THEIR economic system.Would working class Americans vote for capitalism in a national referendum ?
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