> Not sure but it seems to be the crowd that keeps screaming at the working
> class that the problem is that it is racist, sexist, homophobic and
> generally backwards (let's not forget stupid to be religious too).
> Reminded
> me of the critique of the enlightenment critique of religion that Marx
> touches on in Capital 1: "The religious reflections of the real world can,
> in any case, vanish only when the practical relations of everyday life
> between man and man, and man and nature, generally present themselves to
> him
> in a transparent and rational form" (sorry for the reproduction of
> gendered
> language there). The same reason that most on the left long ago stopped
> yelling at the working class that they are irrational and dumb for
> believing
> in god and practicing religion, would seem to also apply to the practice
> of constantly telling them that they are racist. Some are racist of
> course,
> but I don't think it is the majority and even if it were we are not going
> to
> change there need to try and make some sense out of this 'up-side-down
> world' in which their work is being ever undermined, commodified, and used
> against them in society by telling them that they are transferring their
> alienation. Better I think to simply outline the class system that is
> exploiting them.
>
> Brad
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