A Leninist Proverb on Race

Wojtek Sokolowski sokol at jhu.edu
Thu Mar 8 10:38:13 PST 2001


At 09:38 AM 3/8/01 -0500, Charles wrote:
>Leninist proverb on race: Workers and oppressed peoples of the world, unite !

Charles, I'm nonplussed by this injection of subjectivism. "Workers" is an objectively defined category, i.e. "those who sell their labour power to the owners of the means of production." But "oppressed?" - everyone can feel "oppressed" ferchrissake. In fact, fighting "oppression" is a call to arms by the lunatic right who feel "oppressed" by the IRS, the "gummint," "liberal cultural elite," "reverse discrimination" and the kindred pandemonium of bogeymen - not to mention that the Nazis felt "oppressed" by the Jews, Serbs felt "oppressed" by the Bosniaks, and so on.

wojtek



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