Re: income & race

[Doug Henwood <dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx>]

Rakesh Bhandari wrote:

>So that the reason why the US provides less protection against inequality
>is a racist and sexist disregard for the lower half of the working class as
>the potential tax burden alienates not only capital but also that part of
>the working class which has won protection directly from employers. Hence,
>the disaffection of especially white male workers from the Democratic
>Party, which has thus been unable to develop into a truly social democratic
>one, presumably along the lines of Jospin's Socialists.  What do you think
>of this argument?

Sorry to be so fragmented...

I think there's a lot to this argument, not that Jospin's Socialists are
such a wonderful thing.

Doug