ororomunroedontpullout: workersandstudentsdemocracy: spacegirlwhirl: ororomunroedontpullout: workers
ororomunroedontpullout: workersandstudentsdemocracy: spacegirlwhirl: ororomunroedontpullout: workersandstudentsdemocracy: ororomunroedontpullout: afronerdism: workersandstudentsdemocracy: No healthcare in the United States and housing but Jeff Bezos is on the moon Whitey* Op how are you going to deracialize the quote for your own comfort and ignoring the specific sociopolitical history of the quote. Y’all ain’t shit You are wrapped up in the conversation of identity politics that you forget the hierarchy of capital. Your text implies that you oppose the formation of the dictatorship of the proletariat and is thus problematic. You are not a communist, but a social fascist. Literally eat my ass. You can’t divorce capitalism from white supremacy. It’s not “identity politics” it’s facts. The original poem cannot be taken out of its specific racial and sociopolitical context. To flatten Scott-Heron’s poem is to ignore how oppression systems are connected. I’m sorry that you can’t see that So again suck my entire flappy ass Vaush adjacent communists saw one post on reddit about identity politics and said finally, a way to make racism sound educated. There is no racism without capitalism. Racism is not an intrinsic human value. The material conditions of capitalism leads to imperialism, which leads to the division of people. You are not looking at racism through a Marxist lense, which is the scientific and only true outlook on the issue of racism. The elimination of the bourgeoisie to the proletarian class will inevitably lead to a dictatorship of the proletariat, which is a society free from racism. The racialized slave trade predates the modern inception of capitalism. To say that Marxism is the only true lens to analyze racism is not only ridiculous, it ignores all the Black scholars who have analyzed white supremacy with class in mind. Idk why you think a white guy who barely even considered race in his books has all the answers to racism. I’m literally not deracializing the quote but putting it into perspective. Jeff Bezos is the “whitey” from the original quote and I am saying that whiteys like Jeff Bezos is in space will minorities struggle in the United States. Nowhere did I disrespect the struggle of the African American people or the meaning and nuance of the original quote. Instead of hyperfocusing on identity issues, you should acknowledge class and how that intersects with identity issues; it creates a broad blanket of oppression rather than individuating it into different iterations that created divisive often competitive movements. Just look at how “anti-capitalist” BLM is, they make fun of poor whites/asians/hispanics and promote “black business” as opposed to socialism. Focusing solely on identity issues such as my application of Jeff Bezos to this quote is a bad idea for a left that wants to be successful in the U.S. The only left that will be successful in the U.S is one that creates a cross-racial organization that actively combats all injustices as a broader collective. -- source link