Reihan Salam has written an interestingly revealing essay for Slate about how he came to be conscious of his class identity – and, implicitly, how that shaped his emerging political consciousness. He ...

For nearly half a century, History and Class Consciousness by Georg Lukacs has been considered a sort of underground Marxist Classic. When an ENglish translation finally appeared last year, it was ...

As I talk with people like Tom, Sharon, Johnny, and Carol in working class neighborhoods around the country, I realize that I’m hearing echoes of my experience organizing women office workers in the ...

JANE ADDAMS, in Twenty Years at Hull House, implies that the two doctrines of economic determinism and class-consciousness have deterred her from accepting socialism. Now, the form in which these ...

I've been trying to fight against the impulses of accelerationism for decades, and I tend to think of myself as an institutionalist and an incrementalist. But you can't deny the obvious truth that the ...

All leftwing groups are divided by factions. Not right away but before long. The seeds of division are usually sowed early. Think of the French, Russian and American revolutionaries. Maybe rightwing ...

There was a fashion, among the elite of late 18 th C. Spain, to mimic the styles and habits of the working class, in particular, the subculture of Majas and Majos. The French Ambassador to Spain, J. F ...

In radical politics one of the most cherished, thought about, and fawned over concepts is that of "class consciousness". It is assumed that the majority of the victims of capitalism remain victims ...

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The Maya Angelou Public Charter School opened five years ago with the goal of teaching students what it means to be members of the labor force. “We wanted to find a way to help kids understand the ...