Eriona Hysolli

Jul 8, 2023 | thenation.com | Keir Milburn |Adolph Reed Jr. |Eriona Hysolli |Elizabeth A Hadly

Most contemporary arguments on the left about the usefulness of generational analysis are really disagreements about the functioning of class politics. Generational analysis can’t be reduced to class, but in conjunctures such as ours, it can add a useful temporal dimension to our understanding of class divisions. The point of identifying divisions within the working class is, of course, not to exacerbate them but to understand their causes, so that we can better strategize how to overcome them.