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Prisoners of the American Dream
Prisoners of the American Dream: Politics and Economy in the History of the US Working Class | Mike Davis
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A brilliant and comprehensive study of class struggle in the United States Prisoners of the American Dream is Mike Davis’s brilliant exegesis of a persistent and major analytical problem for Marxist historians and political economists: 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 Right and the re-election of Ronald Reagan, concluding with some bracing thoughts on the prospects for progressive politics in the United States.
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Feeling proud of myself 🤓 Revisited this after 5 years. (It was one of the 1st books I ever logged here!) My first go-around was extremely challenging & most of Davis‘s analysis went over my head. But since then I have learned a lot about Marxism & the labor movement, & I‘m happy to report that I was able to follow the argument this time around! Can confirm it is a work of true genius 🤯

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honestly this book was really challenging partially bc i read part 1 in discrete multi-page bursts over the course of a few weeks before going sicko mode & reading all of part 2 in 72 hours. god bless the e-reader search function which i used to look up like, every 4th word. this book made me feel a lil dumb sometimes & i would like to revisit it in a few years, hopefully when i have a deeper understanding of economics 😣

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