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Politics and Economy in the History of the U.S. Working Class,

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Prisoners of the American Dream

is Mike Davis's brilliant exegesis of a persistent and major analytical problem

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Why has the world's most industrially advanced nation never spawned a mass party of the working

class?

This series of essays surveys the history of the American

bourgeois Democratic Revolution from its Jacksonian beginnings to the rise of the new

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Prisoners of the American Dream, Politics and Economy in the history of the U.S. Working Class,

by Mike Davis, out now in a new podcast from Jacobin magazine. My name is Daniel Denver and I'm

broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island.

Socialism, it of course entails the democratic ownership of the means of production.

This is one reason that a minimalist liberal approach to social welfare, resting entirely on progressive taxation, falls short.

It leaves ownership in the political economic power embedded in that ownership in the hands of capitalists.

At worst, a liberal program merely offers workers the means for the social reproduction of their labor power.

At best, it can offer a more decent life. social reproduction of their labor power.

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