Re: [Marxism] Book Review: The Radical Middle Class

["Calvin Broadbent" <calvinbroadbent@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

They did, however, support the superexploitation of blacks and Asians, the
total dispossession of native Americans, and the continuation of colonialism
in Cuba, Puerto Rico and so on. They were not alone: the white American
working class tended towards the same 'concern for economic justice', the
moral bedrock of which was, unfortunately, racism.


> Members of the petite bourgeoisie still harbored notions of a
> "republican political economy" that can be traced back to the nation's
> founding. Historians of social movements of the late-nineteenth century
> have taken to labeling these economic ideas as "producerism," and
> identifying them with the Anti-Federalists, the "hard money" men of the
> Jacksonian era, the Knights of Labor and the Populists. Johnston has
> added small business owners to the ranks of farmers, skilled workers and
> others who believed that wealth should be broadly distributed and earned
> through work. They were not socialists, but neither did they
> wholeheartedly embrace a capitalist order of absolute property rights
> and a rough and tumble rush for profits. Johnston insists the lower
> middle class has kept the faith in economic justice even into our
> current day as a legacy of this moral economy of old.

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