Modern working class has more to lose than its chains

Evidence

That lying takes the presumably innocent form of many white people (and even some black folks) suggesting that racism does not exist anymore, and that conditions of social equality are solidly in place that would enable any black person who works hard to achieve economic self-sufficiency. Forget about the fact that capitalism requires the existence of a mass underclass of surplus labor. … That is to say, individuals are not just presented untruths, but are told them in a manner that enables most effective communication. — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress, 70 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Upper-class luxuries historically become mass necessities through production cost declines — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 801; Working-class individuals often fear equality rather than desire it.; Capitalism structurally requires a permanent underclass of surplus labor — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as…, 70

Broader Connections

• Capitalism structurally requires a permanent underclass of surplus labor #complicates (0.72) — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress, 70