Matt Breunig writes for Jacobin.
The American left continues to debate whether race or class is the motivating force of oppression and suffering in US society. But as many scholars have argued, the question rests on a faulty premise — race and class are inextricable in the historical development of capitalism in the US, and this remains true today.
He also presents a series of charts that put the matter in better perspective.
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