Word: capitalisme
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In identifying the capitalist system as the source of the oppression of American blacks. Malcolm realized that blacks have allies in fighting capitalism. He recognized the system of capitalism as an international structure which united American blacks with other peoples of the Third World. He made two visits to Africa...
Levison strikes down many of the misconceptions taken so seriously by a lot of radicals: that the American labor movement is a totally integrated, quiescent partner of the ruling class (it isn't: except for the Vietnam War, labor has consistently pushed for socially liberal legislation, and only two types...
These are the strong points of Levison's book: a mass of detail and understanding of working class life, and the upholding of the essentially "progressive" character of the American worker. But there are discrepancies that Levison cannot account for, and he conveniently leaves them out of his book. For...
Levison sees the part of the working class nature which engenders social change, but he is hard pressed to see the total revolutionary opposition to the system--appearing at times as reactionary--contained in working class consciousness. Considering working class traditionalism--what some would call almost puritanism--and working class...
In this country, to this point in history, the worker has opposed capitalism in his dreams--dreams of returning to a better, pastoral, life. Those dreams--made even more unreachable by the worsening economic crisis--will not vanish. The present always is too terrible--the worker must believe in either...