Who? Are? The Ninety-Nine Percent?

Dear Ivan, For a little while I was hoping this 99% rhetoric was the answer to all the Left’s disorganizing problems. Finally, an easy way for United Statesians to talk about class, a rallying cry more unifying than the reactionary myth of the vanishing “middle class,” with broader appeal than the freighted “working class” (I [...]

Re: Misreading antiracism in the Left Business Observer

Dear Ivan, Thanks for sending this my way! I actually agreed with a fair amount of what Professor Reed had to say, and found his article clarifying. What a stroke of luck for you and me, who so often agree, to find this opportunity for a little lively interchange. I’ll bet our blog readership, um, [...]

Re: Organizing communities, on the left and right

Dear Ivan, As usual, you are a voice of great clarity. I think Tim Wise is right [Red-Baiting and Race: Socialism as the New Black Bogeyman] that there is an element of racism in some of the anti-Obama anger and fear that people are expressing in Town Halls and blogs. But I also think there’s [...]