![]() I have a lot of mixed thoughts about Sakai. Sakai says that white workers disproportionately make up this labor aristocracy because the many trade unions that rose out of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries excluded minorities and many of the social democratic reforms put in by the New Deal similarly sidelined blacks and hispanics in favor of white workers. Sakai goes onto demonstrate how white workers dispossed native americans of their land from Jamestown to the Trail of Tears. The basic thesis is that American labor is apart of the "labor aristocracy" (a term coined by Lenin) and is distinct from the working-class in the Global South by benefitting from the latter's super-exploitation by Northern Capital. I've heard some mixed things about it but a lot of people seem to like it. ![]()
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