Prisoners of the American Dream: Politics and Economy in the History of the US Working Class (2nd edition)
Mike Davis - Prisoners of the American Dream: Politics and Economy in the History of the US Working Class (2nd edition)
Published: 2000-05-17 | ISBN: 1859842488 | PDF | 336 pages | 15.22 MB
Prisoners of the American Dream is Mike Daviss brilliant exegesis of a persistent and major analytical problem for Marxist historians and political economists: Why has the worlds 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 Ronal Reagan, concluding with some bracing thoughts on the prospects for progressive politics in the United States.