Their Tradition and Ours
Conservatives claim to defend tradition, but what they actually defend is historic injustice and inherited hierarchy – it’s the job of socialists to sustain the working-class tradition of fighting back.
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Vivek Chibber is a professor of sociology at New York University. He is the editor of Catalyst: A Journal of Theory and Strategy.
Conservatives claim to defend tradition, but what they actually defend is historic injustice and inherited hierarchy – it’s the job of socialists to sustain the working-class tradition of fighting back.
The late theorist Erik Olin Wright’s final book holds crucial lessons about which strategies belong to the past and which ones can build the bridge to a socialist future.