A class approach that doesn’t include at their core the necessity and urgency of strategic alliances on the part of the working class with other sectors of the popular movement (people of color, women, and other opponents of the Trump regime) is no class approach at all. It may seem like one, feel like one, read like one, but it isn’t one. It’s no more than an instance of “revolutionary rhetoric” that may sooth one’s revolutionary disposition, while revealing a failure to understand the dialectics of class politics at the level of theory and practice.
Or, to come at it differently, working class mobilization pure and simple will not only fail to activate key allies of the working class, but also the working class itself. It’s a recipe for failure, for defeat, and who needs that at this crucial moment.
