I first encountered the race/class debate as a live issue in the early 1970s, in the New Communist Movement debates that emerged out of…
Adolph Reed Jr.
Adolph Reed Jr. is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the editor and author of several books on the relationship between class and racism. His writing and opinion pieces have appeared on academic and popular journals and magazines including The Progressive, The Village Voice, The New Republic, The Nation, Dissent, and nonsite.org, of which he is an editorial board member. Professor Reed served on the board of Public Citizen Inc., was a member of the Interim National Council of the Labor Party, and is currently on the boards of Food and Water Action and the Debs-Jones-Douglass Institute (DJDI), serving as a regular on its Class Matters podcast
[This is the keynote address to the conference on Anti-Fascism in the 21st Century, held at Hofstra University on Nov. 2 and 3.…
Inflation and the fight against it is on the public agenda today in a way not seen since the 1970s. Adolph Reed Jr. leads…
Source: The Real News Network There is no doubt that racism is real and has negative consequences for people’s lives,” Adolph…
My point is that it’s more effective politically to challenge the inequality and injustice directly and bypass the debate over whether it should be called “racism.”
By reducing all of black Americans’ concerns to race or exploiting the idea of a singular black vote” in the first place, the elite political class continues to undermine our ability to organize the majoritarian social movement we need to combat the ruling-class assault on all working people in the United States
How today’s focus on “racial disparity” can distort our understanding of structural inequality
Democratic neoliberalism has generated its own version of a left wing that not only has little place for the working class; it even denigrates them
What those striking are now bravely confronting in Atlantic City should resonate deeply with American workers, their unions, and beyond
How Fox News, ineffective liberals, corporate Dems and GOP money captured everything
