Richard Wolff, emeritus professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and a visiting professor at New York’s New School University, offers an incisive look at the most taboo topic in American politics, class:
Americans, bamboozled by years of propaganda and mass media pap, have long been convinced that they lived in a land of unprecedented opportunity, where fortune is just a blink away.
Class is an issue that’s traditionally been raised by the left, and with the destruction of the American left during the red scares of World War I and post-World War II, class vanished form mainstream discourse. But the Occupy movement has succeeded in raising the issue anew, albeit in the somewhat simplistic form of the one percenters versus the rest.
Without a discussion of class, economics and politics are meaningless. Here, at least, is a good start.
