The Oh, Hello and welcome to Behind the News. My name is Doug Henwood. Today in moments

Jody Dean will help us think our way beyond the unfruitful

oppositions of class and identity. It's like it's the 1990s all over again.

Except in the right where the face of energized reaction has changed from rural militias to

urban neo-Nazis, melding the German import with our own native confederate strain.

At the bottom of the hour, Jason Wilson, who's been covering the far right for the

guardian, puts the Charlottesville events into context.

First, Jody Dean.

Jody's been on this show many times discussing, among other things,

Internet culture, communism, and Bernie Sanders.

Lately, I've been distressed by an increase in intra-left tensions,

at least as visible in social media. While I'd initially hope that

Trump's election would provoke a unity among progressive forces the opposite looks to be

the case as old battles of class versus identity get rejoined. Mainstream Dem cynically used

identity claims as a way of undermining the Sanders campaign. Economic issues we

were told had nothing to do with undoing racism and sexism as if racism and sexism and sexism had nothing to do with undoing racism and sexism, as if racism and sexism had nothing to do with

material economic relations like the job market or property ownership.

With a failure of such appeals to win the election for Hillary, I'd hoped we could get beyond

those unproductive exchanges, which have more

the quality of taunts than debates.

But I was wrong, at least by the evidence of battles on Twitter, a medium that has its charms, but

which easily devolves into a toxic dump, and Facebook, or at

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