ilchinealach reviewed Prisoners of the American Dream by Mike Davis
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5 stars
it'd be one thing if a history of the American labour movement, an account of the New Right as a revanchist answer to the social militancy of the sixties, the birth of contemporary American anti-politics in California, a diagnosis of the neo-rentierist social base of Reaganism was all that was going on here. it's the account of the American working classes relationship to the projects of political, economic and social re-shaping that America has embarked upon on more or less every continent (with Europe being the only wholly successful* one to date) that knocks this great book into the stratosphere. absolutely mandatory
it'd be one thing if a history of the American labour movement, an account of the New Right as a revanchist answer to the social militancy of the sixties, the birth of contemporary American anti-politics in California, a diagnosis of the neo-rentierist social base of Reaganism was all that was going on here. it's the account of the American working classes relationship to the projects of political, economic and social re-shaping that America has embarked upon on more or less every continent (with Europe being the only wholly successful* one to date) that knocks this great book into the stratosphere. absolutely mandatory