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T34
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o7 I totally agree!
One of my favorites is Gerda Lerner. She grew up fighting Nazis in Austria in the 1930s. At one point they came for her dad. Gerda refused to snitch so the Nazis threw her in prison. After she got out, she fled to the US and tried to have a normal life, got married, founded a communist group, had a couple kids. Then she went back to school and became one of the founders of the academic field of women's history. She wrote The Creation of Patriarchy, a materialist history of the patriarchy that goes back over 5000 years.
Sakai is right. This notion that Black workers are being manipulated by the ruling class against white workers is white supremacist propaganda that goes back to the post-Civil-War reconstruction period. W. E. B. DuBois writes about this in Black Reconstruction in America. Foster is using Klan rhetoric.
They know little of the race problem in industry who declare that is can be settled merely by the unions opening their doors to the negroes. It is much more complex than that...
Bullshit. The solution was full and total desegregation. The only thing "complex" was the white supremacy of the white settler labor aristocracy.
ETA: Calling something a lie is more than just disagreeing with it. It's claiming a deliberate misrepresentation of the facts. Sakai used a direct quote from Foster's own work, then put it in the context of post-Civil-War white supremacy. Even if you disagree, where's the lie?
Holy shit he just murdered her the way she murdered Rosa!
Allende tried something similar in Chile in the 1970s called Cybersyn. I can't find the article, but I saw something by modern computer scientists that said that computers just weren't powerful enough in the 70's to do what they needed.
Snitches get stitches.
Chad Parenti, PhD
Looks/acts exactly like Michael, but D E S T R O Y S that broken mic.
Yeah, agreed. We need a proletarian identity politics. Because identity really only matters in the working classes.
The US even had Black slave owners. There were probably liberals back then trying to use them as examples of progress. Diversity within the bourgeoisie doesn't help us.
We shouldn't look at the enslavers, we should look at who's enslaved. Don't look at the bombers but who's being bombed. Who's being killed in prisons and concentration camps, who's being killed by their water. It's working-class POC every time.
Labour cannot emancipate itself in the white skin where in the black it is branded.
Proletarian identity politics is about worker solidarity and worker emancipation. Getting diverse bourgeois imperialists to bomb the workers is the opposite of that.
"Oh, your cartel assassinated the mayor? Fucking casual. Mine just destroyed a country."