Tag: Race
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Exploitation and Expropriation, or Why Capitalism Must be Attacked with Equal Force on Every Front
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Richard Seymour points out that “To me, it’s straightforward. Class is a social relationship that is structured by race, gender, sexuality, nationality, and a whole range of other determinations. Race is the modality in which millions of people inhabit their class experience. Their “identity politics” will often be the precise way in which they fight…
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It’s Not Just Class: The Fight for Racial Justice Is Inseparable from Overcoming Capitalism
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David Roediger reminds us that overcoming class oppression involves overcoming racial oppression
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Review: Black Subjugation in America
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Review of three books on black subjugation, slavery and white supremacy, and argues these three things need to be placed at the center of the Americqn experience.
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January 1948: Tragic death of immigrant workers inspires a song of solidarity
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The fire began over Los Gatos Canyon. It started in the left engine-driven fuel pump. The plane crashed 20 miles west of Coalinga, California, on January 28, 1948. It came down into hills which, as one commentator noted, at that time of year are “a beautiful green, splendid with wildflowers … a place of breathtaking…
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What Does Black Lives Matter Want?
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Robin D.G. Kelley reports on the publication of a document expressing the guiding vision of the Black Lives Matter movement.