The Nature of Neoliberalism - New Politics
Charles Post assesses Neil Davidson's posthumous book on neoliberalism, which makes a key contribution to the Marxist analysis of contemporary capitalism.
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Charles Post assesses Neil Davidson's posthumous book on neoliberalism, which makes a key contribution to the Marxist analysis of contemporary capitalism.
The US working class was forged, for Davis, through its compounded historical defeat, which gave it a distinctive contradictory, battered, and lumpy form that could not be evened out through appeals to abstraction. Most importantly, the cycle of defeat and accommodation had separated the official labor movement from the Black working class, which he saw as the only possible “cutting edge” for socialist politics.
The Marxist historian and urban theorist died in October aged 76. As a theoretical innovator, his singular political approach is as prescient and urgent as ever.