This work pictures the classes in the U.S. and conducts a lively debate about class versus fashionable substitute categories like occup-ation and income. Using Census and other data in a readable discussion, Loren argues that the working class now makes up 90% of the population, capitalists two percent, and an intermediate class of petty producers eight percent. At the same time, the book analyzes the remarkable survival power of petty bourgeois ideas and attitudes. Among the themes Loren confronts are those dwelling on the new middle class, the new working class, post-industrial society, and petty bourgeois strata.
One of the most important and foundational texts in Black Historiography, Black Recon-struction covers the history and achievements of Black people in the United States during the Reconstruction era (1860-1880) and seeks to combat the popular narrative of the era that sidelines Black men and women in favor of the white perspective.
Published in 1948, this is undoubtedly Harry Haywood's most important work. In it, he discusses the Black national question inside the United States through the lens of Marxism-Leninism. He provides a materialist analysis of the Black belt in the south, how it constitutes an oppressed nation within a nation, and why the liberation of Black people is key to the greater liberation struggle of the American working class.