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On 2017-01-11 20:16, Louis Proyect via Marxism wrote:
By Kim Moody
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/01/trump-election-democrats-gop-clinton-whites-workers-rust-belt/
While addressing a number of angles explaining the election outcome, the
first part of this article does a good job in debunking the importance
of the supposed white working class shift to Trump:
"The media story in the days following the 2016 election was that a
huge defection of angry, white, blue-collar workers in the Rust Belt
from their traditional Democratic voting patterns put Donald J. Trump in
the White House in a grand slap at the nation’s “liberal” elite. But is
that the real story?"
Arguing along the same lines (but with a somewhat different motivation),
I read a very thorough analysis of the election results and the white
working class by Andrew Flood of the anarchist Workers Solidarity
Movement (Ireland) at:
http://www.wsm.ie/c/trump-white-working-class-and-left
His conclusions are aimed against certain economist currents that would
draw incorrect lessons from the misperception that both articles
challenge, as suggested in the following excerpt:
"Fundamentally the position advanced by the nostalgic left that we
have to focus on the concerns of ‘the neglected white working class’ has
to be rejected. It has to be rejected because it is factually wrong but
it also has to be rejected because it in no way can build class
solidarity when it’s historic role is to destroy it. Focusing on the
particular grievances of white workers is how the capitalist class
created and maintained working class divisions."
- Jeff
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