The American Proletariat Is Entering History

"I think it's a level of social mobilization, a level of working class self activity and popular initiative that has not been seen in this country for a long time," he says. "It could be that...this state and its kind of forces are not as powerful as they think they are or that they're more easily worn down." He adds: "There's grounds for optimism, but it's also simultaneously a very nightmarish and scary fucking world that we live in".