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Poor White People and Racism. WTF?

“The links between capitalism and racism have also been well documented. It is a little recognized fact that the breakdown of union power in the late 1960s was facilitated, in part, by the racial tensions that spread through heavily unionized industries (especially steel and automotive) in the wake of pushes to desegregate the unions. Working…

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The Three Dominant Classes of Contemporary America

We have three dominant classes in contemporary America: We have the poor and outcast… We have a slipping working class that considers itself middle class. And we have powerful, and often greedy, Wall Street oligarchs and corporate plutocrats. Wall Street oligarchs and corporate plutocrats dominate our political, economic and cultural systems. Powerful words tweeted by…

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