Carrol
On 8/28/2011 12:01 PM, shag carpet bomb wrote:
> At 10:50 AM 8/28/2011, Joseph Catron wrote:
>> What in God's name does any of that have to do with power outages
>> caused by
>> a hurricane?
>
>
> he's saying that it sounds a bit like when western u.s. men chide
> western feminists: "oh, shut up. At least you're not wearing burkas and
> you can drive."
>
> It creates a hiearchy of who is more oppressed because, underlying most
> western marxist and western marxish politics, there's the endless search
> for the subject of history - the "most oppressed" class which is
> supposed to truly understand how to struggle against capitalism and with
> whom we must align ourselves.
>
> so, when you're in the grip of such thinking -- which some people
> (perhaps many?) do find very persuasive and defensible -- you just tend
> to think that political struggle in the u.s. is a total waste of time
> because it is over silly and unimportant things considering that people
> are way more oppressedor (tm) everywhere else.
>
> shag
>
>
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