Democratic Elites’ Class Hatred of the White Working Class
This is a terrific article on the class reasons for hatred of the white working class by Democratic elites and journalists. Seems that identity politics is fine for them because identity politics does not have the potential to threaten capitalism.
Read in Jacobin by Connor Kilpatrick
A cashier at Target. shazbot music / Flickr
About The Author
Bruce Lerro has taught for 25 years as an adjunct college professor of psychology at Golden Gate University, Dominican University and Diablo Valley College. He has applied a Vygotskian socio-historical perspective to his four books:
From Earth-Spirits to Sky-Gods: the Socio-ecological Origins of Monotheism, Individualism and Hyper-Abstract Reasoning
Power in Eden: The Emergence of Gender Hierarchies in the Ancient World
Co-Authored with Christopher Chase-Dunn
Social Change: Globalization from the Stone Age to the Present and Lucifer's Labyrinth: Individualism, Hyper-Abstract Thinking and the Process of Becoming Civilized
He is also a representational artist specializing in pen-and-ink drawings. Bruce is a libertarian communist and lives in Olympia WA.