In City Trenches: Urban Politics and the Patterning of Class in the United States, Ira Katznelson theorizes that which Jill Jonnes demonstrates, to a limited extent in South Bronx Rising, that being the social and political power available to groups which show a willingness and ability to organize and mobilize independent of racial and ethnic differences. ... A hint of this pessimism/realism is suggested in his inclusion in "City Trenches" of a quote by Engels, writing in 1893 why there was "No Large Socialist Party in America" as follows: "Then and more especially, immigration, which divi...

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