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Two friends and I spent much of Saturday night debating a young white attendee who argued that structural changes to the economy were more important than cultivating a discourse and spirit of inclusion, as if they were mutually exclusive. The framing was that serious things like fossil fuel divestment and collateral for opening worker-owned businesses merited more attention than sensitive-Sammy concern for political correctness. Its a false and myopic - but familiar - dichotomy on the left, and far from elevating a list of priorities that may facilitate revolution more expeditiously, it entrenches the same identity-based resentment that serves the vacuous culture of capitalism so well. truth-out.org/news/item/24276-commonbound-a-revolution-needing-a-spirit
Posted on: Fri, 13 Jun 2014 23:54:49 +0000

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