The Politics of Noel Ignatiev

Published: Oct. 26, 2022, noon

The complicity of white workers in maintaining the capitalist status quo has been much argued on the U.S. left. One of the key combatants and contributors to the debate was the influential radical thinker Noel Ignatiev, who died in 2019. Economist Geert Dhondt reflects on the key ideas of Ignatiev on race and the notion of dual power in moments of revolutionary upheaval.\nResources:\nNoel Ignatiev, Treason to Whiteness is Loyalty to Humanity (Edited by Geert Dhondt, Zhandarka Kurti, and Jarrod Shanahan) Verso, 2022 \nNoel Ignatiev, Acceptable Men: Life in the Largest Steel Mill in the World Charles H Kerr, 2021 \nHard Crackers \nThe post The Politics of Noel Ignatiev appeared first on KPFA.