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Re; [Marxism] [UCE] Fwd: The Rise and Fall of the Socialist Party of America | Jacobin
I look for a history of the working class in the US that situates it in the world while at the same time closely documenting from the available archives the felt experiences of real people, not "leaders," in that class. Sort of on the model of E P Thompson's The Making of the English Working Class, a close reading of that history in its lived context, centered on working people, with the experience of parties and sects if present at all, on the periphery of or reflective of that narrative. I would look for such a project to bring it up to the ominous present, where the members of the American working class seem to be stuck in our "exceptional state," the empire, living off the proceeds of the rest of the world from whence comes the product we preponderantly consume, and due to which we cannot or choose not presently to join the rest of the working world in solidarity, let alone engender any faint recognition of class belonging or significant sense of common plight and purpose domestically. This in the context of global capital run rampant. If there is such, one that combines global breadth of analysis with historical detail and sociological depth, I haven't seen or I don't remember it. Who can render this portrait for us to hold in front of our uncomprehending, denying faces? Hell, we're so stuck on ourselves we can't even include the Cubans, the Dominicans, the Venezuelans, the Japanese or more than one or two Canadian teams in our baseball "World Series."
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