Centering the lived experience of the most marginalized is the fastest path towards decentering whiteness which is the fastest path towards dismantling capitalism. That's not neoliberal identity politics.
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The fastest path? Where has focusing on subgroups of subgroups ever worked in a liberation struggle?
jul 27, 2025, 7:47 pm • 0 0 • view
Focusing on the black, working class brought us the civil and voting rights acts of '64 & '65. Not some racially agnostic, purely class based program.
jul 27, 2025, 11:56 pm • 1 0 • view
Focusing on the mixed working class of trash collectors instead of nebulous racisl justice, brought MLK a spray of lead. It was the inclusion of class that did him in. That's an indication that he was onto something. Accuracy is confirmed by the magnitude of power's response.
jul 28, 2025, 1:50 am • 0 0 • view
The Black Panthers likewise were taken down once Fred Hampton began to organize cross racial including poor whites against the ravages of capitalism. Once class came into the mix, then power got serious. Race alone can be digested by the system just fine.
jul 28, 2025, 1:51 am • 0 0 • view
White supremacy is much more deeply rooted in the US than capitalism. What you suggest is that we can’t address capitalism until we solve white supremacy. We have to do both at the same time, leading with the lower hanging fruit, capitalism.
jul 28, 2025, 1:10 am • 0 0 • view
There is no capitalism without racism, Marc. Capitalism requires a lower caste, a demonized out-group, exploited and extracted from. These aren't separate systems but inextricably linked ones and there is no path that liberates us all without substantively addressing our original sins.
jul 28, 2025, 1:39 am • 0 0 • view
There is capitalism without US style white supremacy in many places. If anything, the original sin is misogynist patriarchy that institutionalized power-over.
jul 28, 2025, 1:46 am • 0 0 • view