Class Consciousness - The Missing Factor - Existence Denied by the Right

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Class consciousness is the missing thing the left needs to gain popular support and gain an electoral majority.

There is ample evidence that the forces of conservatism have worked very hard to try to deny the class elements of politics and society. They have convinced people that there are various other menaces (gays, Hollywood, welfare cheats, immigrants, abortionists, internationalists, etc.) and that 'we are all Americans'. They try to minimize the awareness of class differences and class conflict, all the while waging covert class warfare on behalf of the wealthy class.

I believe that if people's eyes could be opened to the reality and magnitude of class issues and the degree to which they shape and dominate the national and even international agenda, we would have no problem winning elections. But how can people be made aware of class issues in a society where those who own the media are actively denying the existence of class?

Do DUers agree that lack of class consciousness is the most significant factor in the popular success of the right? (I include the 'religious right' vote here, as personal morality and life in the hereafter have been trumpeted to drown out class concerns.)

And if so, what is to be done to raise popular awareness of class forces? (Obviously, masses of people dropping into poverty and the underclass is not sufficient to raise awareness of this issue, as we saw in Nov. 2004.) So what does it take?