John Oliver: Income Inequality

Every time politicians start to address income inequality, they get shut down by the cry of "class warfare." But according to John Oliver, "Just because politicians can't talk about inequality doesn't mean we shouldn't."

Class Brought to Life

Nicole Aschoff Jacobin
The dominant neoliberal consensus today is that class, race, and gender are just issues of identity. The dominant narrative claims that none of them are structural forces worth bemoaning. None of them have the power to determine our life chances if we don’t want them to. To the contrary, it is the invisibility of the structural dimensions of class, race, and gender that defines current social relations of power