[lbo-talk] Re: boycotting the unorganized (miidle class)

[amadeus amadeus]

It's also important to mention that a section of the
interests of special oppressions, as Turbulo called
them, will run antithetical to the class struggle.
Some of the intelligentsia will be able to (or at
least think they're able to) secure a cozy position
within bourgeois society, and thus will shout down
those seeking to overturn capitalism as "racist,"
"homophobic," "sexist," etc.

While clearly they should be making every attempt to
unite rather than divide the working class along
identity lines, communists and labor organizers should
be prepared to be subjected to the worst slights
associated with political incorrectness.

--adx
--- joanna bujes <jbujes at covad.net> wrote:


> 
> 
> But why is that? Surely it must be because these
> forms of oppression
> 
> >support capitalism; that is, the current form of
> capitalism is
> >determined (in part) by racism, sexism and
> homophobia, while the current
> >forms of these prejudices are determined (in part)
> by capitalism.
> >
> More loosely, any form of oppression (using a divide
> and conquer 
> strategy) strengthens the ruling class because it
> divides those ruled by 
> race, gender, what have you. Racism, sexism, etc.,
> are not particular to 
> capitalism, but they divide the working class.
> 
> Fighting these forms of oppression will not end
> capitalism, but they 
> will diminish the power of the rulers to undermine
> the solidarity of the 
> working class.
> 
> Joanna
> 
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