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Whenever I think about Big Ambitious policy goals I do feel a pang of sympathy for the "convert the white working class through class consciousness" squad. Unfortunately I think at this point in history that strategy has a pretty big downside.
But if we are ever going to get Big Ambitious policy like nationalizing capital markets or reparations or redistributing political power so that more goes to people and less goes to land... I don't *think* retaining current margins among POC will be enough.
And, btw, it's mostly due to assimilation and white Latinx folks disappearing into whiteness. Although... who has done the research on how the white-identifying children of at least one POC parent vote? Does The Lost Majority take the argument that far?
So sooner or later "convert the white working class" I suppose will have to happen? I can't see Panera Bread whites nationalizing capital markets for me, so.
BUT I think it's *very important* (flashing lights, sirens, thunderbolts and lightning important) that the white working class be converted on consciously socially progressive terms. An alliance of convenience to stop Trump? Sure. A long-term governing coalition? I doubt it.
Because the key is---I ardently hope for a MAJOR restructuring of America in my lifetime. Probably multiple Constitutional amendments major at the very least. But when you go into a restructure, your coalition is KEY.
It's very easy to come out of a big restructuring process more racist (or more sexist, or more classist, or more capitalist, or more homophobic, etc., etc.,) than you went in.
And like... understand that I see any American restructuring not as The Justice We All Want but as a truce between competing interests (ideally as a structure for those competing interests that resists hegemony).
But I think the only way that happens in a way that doesn't do more harm than good to a lot of social groups is to have a very broad coalition that is seriously and explicitly committed to each other, not along class as a single organizing center but as intersectional solidarity.
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