Guest Commentator

Van Gosse

BC Guest Commentator Van Gosse is a Professor of History at Franklin & Marshall. After writing about the New Left “movement of movements” for some years, in 2021 he published The First Reconstruction: Black Politics in America, From the Revolution to the Civil War. He has been active in peace and solidarity work since the 1980s (CISPES, Peace Action, United for Peace and Justice) and helped found Historians Against the War, now H-PAD, in 2003. [email protected]?subject=Yes,%20Put%20me%20on%20the%20email%20list&body=Put%20me%20on%20the%20BlackCommenator.com%20email%20list

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Guest Commentary

Who Is Working-Class, and Why It Matters

By Van Gosse Guest Commentator

From the 1930s through the present, powerful corporate interests have exercised a large, often decisive influence among Democrats, along with urban machines dominated by ethnic interests, and, until recently, white southerners of all classes.

Many political analysts, including some on the Left, are positing a radically new configuration of class in the United States. Their argument, reduced to its essence,…

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