Flipping the Script: Rethinking Working-Class Resistance

(Before It's News)

By Henry A. Giroux, Truthout

I came alive as a youth when I realized that what the ruling class called my deficits were actually my strengths: a sense of solidarity, compassion, a merging of the mind and the body, learning and willing to take risks, embracing passion, connecting knowledge to power, being attentive to the injuries of others and embracing a sense of social justice.

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