In No Politics but Class Politics, Walter Benn Michaels and Adolph Reed show how an identity politics that obscures class politics and ignores economic inequality only makes the many miseries around us worse.
i think squaring the circle here might be realizing that liberal identity politics are not international at all, because at their heart they’re still imperialists. A liberal’s vision of eliminating racism is what you said, they want domestic access to positions of power for all of a nation’s internal ethnic groups. They want equal access to imperialism (for those who are already within an imperialist nation)
That vanishes from their brains when international people are considered, since a western nation’s spoils rely upon cheap foreign labor and goods. Liberals do not see monetary exploitation of Africa by western powers as racist. They tend to not consider it at all.
Liberals do not see monetary exploitation of Africa by western powers as racist. They tend to not consider it at all.
Well, to be “fair” to these ghouls, when they ARE considering it, they wouldn’t care if the people living there were black or white as long as there was lithium underneath their houses. But that’s only relevant to ideological racism, not systemic racism which I think is what you’re talking about
Person literally named Adolph is definitely not right though
I still think it’s racism that liberals promote. For instance, look at their reactions to when a terrorist attack happens to a European country versus somewhere like Southeast Asia.
i think squaring the circle here might be realizing that liberal identity politics are not international at all, because at their heart they’re still imperialists. A liberal’s vision of eliminating racism is what you said, they want domestic access to positions of power for all of a nation’s internal ethnic groups. They want equal access to imperialism (for those who are already within an imperialist nation)
That vanishes from their brains when international people are considered, since a western nation’s spoils rely upon cheap foreign labor and goods. Liberals do not see monetary exploitation of Africa by western powers as racist. They tend to not consider it at all.
Well, to be “fair” to these ghouls, when they ARE considering it, they wouldn’t care if the people living there were black or white as long as there was lithium underneath their houses. But that’s only relevant to ideological racism, not systemic racism which I think is what you’re talking about
Person literally named Adolph is definitely not right though
I still think it’s racism that liberals promote. For instance, look at their reactions to when a terrorist attack happens to a European country versus somewhere like Southeast Asia.
Oh yeah