The Double Horseshoe Theory of Class Politics The “class war” isn't happening where you think it is. by Michael Lind July 16, 2020 Source: https://www.thebellows.org/the-double-horseshoe-theory/ Double horseshoes. (CJ Sorg / CC BY-SA 2.0) According to elite neoliberalism, the US and Western Europe today are imperfect meritocracies divided chiefly by race and gender, and not by class. Anyone whose career does not depend on affirming this narrative can see through it. It is obvious that class conflicts have set the North Atlantic world ablaze. But what are the classes? In The New Class War: Saving Democracy from the Managerial Elite (2020), building on my argument in The Next American Nation (1995), I offered an answer. I proposed that, while the proletariat is still the proletariat, James Burnham , Bruno Rizzi , John Kenneth Galbraith and other thinkers were correct that by the mid-twentieth century power had passed from individual bourgeois business owners to a new