Why do so many so-called “leftists” continue falling into, and putting up with, the racist trap of referring to “the white working class?”
We don’t have a “white working class” in this country... we never have and never will.
There is one working class in this country and our working class is multi-racial.
The Nation Magazine and other such publications which restrict the views they publish to well-heeled upper middle class intellectuals while censoring the voices of rank-and-file working class activists routinely buys into this racist fallacy of there being a “white working class.”
In a recent “debate” over whether or not we need a new party in this country, The Nation allowed this racist phrase of “white working class” to be used by the proponent of the Democratic Party serving us well.
I don’t know of one single worker who would use the phrase “white working class.”
The phrase is a racist concoction used by those who are consciously trying to divide our multi-racial working class and we shouldn’t tolerate this racism.
The Nation Magazines “debate” was headlined, “Should the Left Launch an American Labor Party?”
In fact, it will take many more people than a little left to launch a new party.
And the new party will have to be a working class based people’s party that is both anti-monopoly and anti-imperialist not afraid to challenge Wall Street for political and economic power.
The same writer who thinks the Democratic Party serves us well, in addition to using this racist “white working class” bullshit declared as if it was fact that no alternative part, except the Republican Party, has ever been successful in this country... intentionally not mentioning the fact that the socialist Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party had a very high degree of success.
The Nation Magazine won’t even tolerate rebuttal in a letter to the editor.
Rank-and-file working class activists have no voice through any media in this country.