Peter Gatti’s Reviews > Hinterland: America’s New Landscape of Class and Conflict > Status Update
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I suppose ive based a lot of my views and political activyt on the feeling that the working class still very much exists and is the agent of history, and that the working class is currently a disorganized mass in the inner suburbs that needs to become organized. I’ve seen very little contemporary theory that helps clarify this. Appreciate his references to Kilcullen. COIN theory often overlooked by socialists.
— Nov 26, 2022 05:18PM
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Peter Gatti
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Second chapter not great. A lot of “white worker” stuff. I understand the feeling that leads to believing in it, but it just seems hopelessly optimistic. Even in times where the political conditions have called out more strongly to white workers, what have they ultimately chosen to do each time? But who knows, maybe this time is different.
Anyway he redeems it after. Very good again after chapter 2.
— Dec 01, 2022 09:38AM
Anyway he redeems it after. Very good again after chapter 2.
Peter Gatti
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Only part way through but to sum up my initial thoughts: this book does the thing that I find only really strong communist writing capable of doing, which is to distill and clarify feelings you’ve had about politics/the world out there. I massively appreciate his attempt to outline “communist” geography as distinct from the absolute fucking husk of “Marxist” geography (cont…?)
— Nov 26, 2022 05:14PM
