The woman in charge of BLM in Toronto purchased a multi million $ house in the richest area of Toronto with donations made to BLM, just goes to show what her ideology was. Having worked in Toronto for 30 years I saw very little racism directed towards any specific groups. I have travelled quite a lot to other countries and my experience has shown me that we are amongst the least racist places.
Yes. Those ones are not traditional Marxists. Marxists despise postmodernism; they actually believe there is something called objective reality, even if they don't practice it.
This dear James is a 'troublemaker' theory of history that denies that they had much to make trouble about. It is a favorite refrain of dictators or anyone who is an embedded beneficiary of a noxious status quo
I think you need to nuance this a lot to make it look less like an apologia for reactionaries.who are in denial that there are serious issues with the way they do business & the regime they are apologists for
This is not to say that the revolutionaries aren't just like the people & forces they oppose.....or worse....much worse.
However it is important to recognize that revolutionaries lose traction when the condition of the oppressed is better than the picture their slogans paint. The class struggle 'lost it's way' in the increasingly improving working class conditions within Western societies, starting from the 1840s on, as industrial conditions improved & reform movements started to kick goals.
The rise of the Woke is much more complex than it looks & is a result of a profound regime crisis. The Woke are not revolutionaries at all. They are regime, in the same way that the church once was. It's highly successful campaign to seize power over the system of social reproduction & administration has all the features of a neo clerical coup.
We haven't seen anything like this since The Reformation.
I see here in this essay a conflation of Marxist strategies with black nationalism and identity politics that on the most part contradicts the politics of many/most Marxists of that era. They did not accept the postmodernist model. This is a long discussion, but as someone who was in the m-l camp in the 70s and early 80s, I can be quite categorical that while we may have had some incoherent ideas, identitarian politics were not included. In fact, quite the opposite. I remember we were the ONLY ones rejecting the term "visible minority" because it was racist. There is also a lot of difference in the politics in the US vs Canada and in the 1930s vs 1960s vs now.
The woman in charge of BLM in Toronto purchased a multi million $ house in the richest area of Toronto with donations made to BLM, just goes to show what her ideology was. Having worked in Toronto for 30 years I saw very little racism directed towards any specific groups. I have travelled quite a lot to other countries and my experience has shown me that we are amongst the least racist places.
Yes. Those ones are not traditional Marxists. Marxists despise postmodernism; they actually believe there is something called objective reality, even if they don't practice it.
This dear James is a 'troublemaker' theory of history that denies that they had much to make trouble about. It is a favorite refrain of dictators or anyone who is an embedded beneficiary of a noxious status quo
I think you need to nuance this a lot to make it look less like an apologia for reactionaries.who are in denial that there are serious issues with the way they do business & the regime they are apologists for
This is not to say that the revolutionaries aren't just like the people & forces they oppose.....or worse....much worse.
However it is important to recognize that revolutionaries lose traction when the condition of the oppressed is better than the picture their slogans paint. The class struggle 'lost it's way' in the increasingly improving working class conditions within Western societies, starting from the 1840s on, as industrial conditions improved & reform movements started to kick goals.
The rise of the Woke is much more complex than it looks & is a result of a profound regime crisis. The Woke are not revolutionaries at all. They are regime, in the same way that the church once was. It's highly successful campaign to seize power over the system of social reproduction & administration has all the features of a neo clerical coup.
We haven't seen anything like this since The Reformation.
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Marxists to my recollection don't accept any such thing as "black Marxism". It's a way at looking as historical change and is colour-free...
I see here in this essay a conflation of Marxist strategies with black nationalism and identity politics that on the most part contradicts the politics of many/most Marxists of that era. They did not accept the postmodernist model. This is a long discussion, but as someone who was in the m-l camp in the 70s and early 80s, I can be quite categorical that while we may have had some incoherent ideas, identitarian politics were not included. In fact, quite the opposite. I remember we were the ONLY ones rejecting the term "visible minority" because it was racist. There is also a lot of difference in the politics in the US vs Canada and in the 1930s vs 1960s vs now.