Political economy

Aug 23

Race or class vs. Race and class

Political economy, USA, USA

En Estados Unidos está creciendo el movimiento de liberación de las minorías y muy especial de las Afroamericanas, que está teniendo gran impacto en la vida política del país. Resultado de su creciente madurez, existe la percepción de elementos importantes de tal movimiento, de que es necesario aliarse con otros movimientos de liberación para poder actuar conjuntamente y conseguir una mayor transformación más profunda de la sociedad. Ello conlleva la necesidad de establecer espacios políticos de coalición que tengan elementos en común como la clase social. El modelo es el movimiento Arcoíris “Rainbow Coalition” fundado por Jesse Jackson, discípulo predilecto de Martin Luther King, que unió los distintos sectores de la clase trabajadora de aquel país perteneciente a distintos grupos sociales, políticos y culturales. Tal coalición casi ganó las primarias del partido demócrata de 1988.

This article published in Portside on August 8, 2023, by Vicente Navarro helps to clarify that the current dichotomy of race or class as the major focus for the development of progressive strategies for change has serious limitations, Jesse Jackson showed that all the discriminated and exploited sectors of the working population of the U.S. need, besides fighting for their liberation, to ally themselves in broader coalitions asking for profound changes that will benefit all of them. It is not, therefore, race or class but rather race and class. This is how the first call for Universal Health Program put forward by Jackson’s Rainbow Coalition almost became part of the Democratic Party platform of 1988 and that is also why, later on, the Clinton health care task force reforms of 1992 failed.

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Aug 09

What is Happening in the United States? How Social Classes Influence the Political Life of the Country and its Health and Quality of Life

Political economy, USA, Welfare State, Europe, International, International, Neoliberalism and Globalization, Spanish Politics, Political Transition, Political Transition, USA

This article by Professor Navarro published in the International Journal of Health Services shows the enormous importance of the category social class, besides race and gender to understand the political, social and health situation of the United States.

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Jan 15

What Should Be the Objective of an Emancipatory Project?

Political economy, USA, Welfare State, Europe, Europe, Neoliberalism and Globalization, Neoliberalism and Globalization, Spanish Politics, Spanish Politics, USA

Professor Navarro suggests the reading of this article. This article shows the relationship between class, race and gender exploitation, showing the need to establish political movements that are united in their opposition to all forms of exploitation. The article demonstrates that the countries that have reduced class, race and gender differentials most significantly are the countries, governed by coalitions of progressive parties historically rooted in the workers’ movements. The absence of such parties explains the enormous race, class and gender differentials in the United States. Published in the International Journal of Health Services, Vol. 50.3, pp. 253–263, 2020.

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Feb 28