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tl:dr: good books on my thesis that the American working class has been sold out

I live in a very conservative, working class, post-industrial area, and have been actively engaged with the Democratic Party for some time.

But, I am becoming disillusioned. I am worried that the party has, at best, forgotten the working class, rural Americans who used to form a major vertebrae in the spine of the New Deal coalition, or, at worst, has actively sold them out over the past few decades with neoliberal trade policies and maligned them as racist hillbillies voting against their own best interests, opting instead to fixate around niche cultural issues that appeal to the cosmopolitan bourgeousie.

I am aware of the net benefits from globalization and automation, but I am worried that we have lost something along the way.

I am interested in reading books for or against this/these premise/(s). I am also interested in reading books that are critical of “progress” (e.g., Steppenwolf, Brave New World). I have been a Clintonite New Democrat for some time, but I think that the gains from trade end of history etc have left something very big out of the picture. I don’t know what it is though.

>> No.12403727

You sound like a proto-socialist. You might appreciate Marx's class analysis and his critique of capitalism. Just don't become a memecommunist who thinks a new bolshevik revolution is gonna happen any minute now and usher in utopia

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12403740

I give this bait 3/10; too obvious by a mile.

>> No.12403741

are you a middle-aged time traveler from the 90s?

>> No.12403777

>>12403727
No, not at all. What is concerning me is the neoliberals’ economic reductionism, which is even worse on the left, and their fixation on identity politics, which is much, much worse and more deeply unhinged on the left. I also think socialism is a horrible economic model compared to capitalism but I’m not trying to debate the merits of either right now.

I guess I have said that I’m interested in conservativism, particularly populist or romantic conservativism (not sure whether the second one exists or I am just making it up).