"What both of these books miss is the role of liberal politics in the erosion of working-class solidarity. Since the early twentieth century, liberal politicians have both depended to some degree on such solidarity to supply mass support and at the same time sought to contain it to sustain their own position. When this project of containment succeeds, class itself begins to diminish as an organizing political force—empowering liberal politicians, but producing oligarchy for society at large. Class as a political phenomenon is produced through conflict that is always ongoing in some form. But there is no guarantee that electoral struggles between parties will mirror or even clearly express the struggles between classes."
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