Though liberal elites are horrified by the vulgarity of the far right, they are not opposed to diverting the masses from a politics of class to a politics of despair, as the far right has done, writes Vijay Prashad.
Once the jobs left and Democrats abandoned working men and women, people became desperate in the author’s hometown in Maine — as in tens of thousands of white, rural enclaves across the country.
There is no culture war over immigration in the normally understood sense, writes Arun Kundnani. Rather, there is a strange and hidden class war being fought out on the terrains of race and culture.
The class struggle is alive and well, writes Vijay Prashad. Although one of the weaknesses of our time is that massive mobilizations have not been easily converted into political power.