Author: Vijay Prashad
Publisher: Three Essays
Year: 2002
Language: English
Pages: 101
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8188394033
Description
Poverty, racism and sexism are rife within the US, but, in truth, the conditions for major social change are not yet in evidence. This book of three essays offers an assessment of the contradictions of US life, of the attempts by its economic and political managers to stabilize their dominance.
The Guevara once said of the US, that the revolution may strike in the belly of the beast, meaning within the heart of the Empire itself. Social forces within the US, long suppressed, may erupt and challenge the masters of mankind on their home turf. The social movements of the 1960s offered some hope in this direction, and in December 1999 the protests in Seattle provoked us once again to rethink the US revolution.
And of the few social agents at work to transform what Mao called a paper tiger. The paper tiger continues to growl-this is the subject of Vijay Prashad’s short book of essays.
Contents
Introduction
ESSAY 1
Keeping Up with the Dow Joneses
ESSAY 2
Criminality and the Reserve Army of Labor
ESSAY 3
The New Millennium Freedom riders:
Welfare Reform Faces the Grassroots