No war but class war.
Always has been. We just keep forgetting that.
"When the people are being beaten with a stick, they are not much happier if it is called "the People's Stick" ~19th-century Russian anarchist Mikhail Bakunin used in his 1873 work Statism and Anarchy to critique Marxism
I'm sure you mean well, but I always get frustrated by this poster (E: as in the propaganda poster, not op poster lol).
Class reductionism, in the same way that "I don't see colour" does, ignores the very real material impacts of racism (and other systems of oppression) in addition to the impacts of class, and the fact that it also tries to frame white power and "Black power" as equal and equivalent, when they reaaaaaly aren't, is really telling.
Do we as a global working class need to unite against capitalists? Absolutely!
Can that ever happen if parts of the movement ignore and dismiss intersectionality and only focuses on abolishing one form of oppression, but not the others? Never.
Not only because left unaddressed those systems will remain, but because telling marginalised people to wait their turn, or for a "more convenient season" as MLK put it, is telling them loud and clear that their lives and freedom aren't a priority.
Intersectionality ftw.
Depends a bit on how each sees the image? Uniting in a more general way would mean less friction to resolve other problems by having less internal fights.
Yes, I think the point they're getting at is that people will use the concept of uniting regardless of race as an excuse to ignore the voices of people of color. Especially because that's a go-to argument for white people to cop out of racial conversations that make them uncomfortable. I'm tempted to believe there's some of that sentiment in the lurkers of this thread, given what's getting down voted.
We wouldn’t have the racial divide thing, and more recently homophobia and transphobia, if those at the top weren’t using these things to divide us.
I dont think so anyway. Not to the extent we do.
Black Power is generally used not for the idea of the supremacy of any 'Black race', but to express solidarity against a racist system and emphasizing the strength and achievements of Black folk, considering the efforts of said racist system to denigrate and deny them.
White Power, on the other hand, is very much used for the idea of the superiority of a 'White race'.
Homos unite!
why would you exclude our ape brothers and sisters like that
Hominidaes unite!
Homo Habilis is perfect size for weaseling ito tight spaces and sabotaging. Achingly.
Are you suggesting we chuck homo habilis into a factory machine?
Black power is based though, it's just that white power sucks
Human species
