The Opiate of the American Dream: Why the Working Class Supports Trump
The question of why the American proletariat, that vast army of wage slaves, should find itself marching under the banner of a billionaire whose every breath is a testament to the most vulgar forms of capitalism, is one that demands the most rigorous materialist analysis. It is not a question of “why” in the abstract, but of how the specific contradictions of American capitalism have produced this …