I think what you've noticed is more of the vulgarizing of revolutionaries into non-threatening icons that Lenin wrote about.
It shouldn't be any surprise that capitalism has commodified liberation movements (especially with neoliberalism). That's a new potential market! Porky loves new customers.
:eco-porky: "Gimme more o' that pink capitalism."
It also tends to be white upper classs figures who assimilate because Amerika is racist apartheid state and those figures already had misaligned class interests. Stonewall was an insurrection lead by people of color. Liberation has always been intersectional.
It’s impressive how COINTELPRO really did a number on the American left, isn’t it? The left hasn’t had any massive political power in the imperial core for decades, I don’t think most people here would argue otherwise.
Good we agree that Amerika is a racist apartheid state. Slavery is even still legal, so of course the system has been mass incarcerating people of color. The racial caste system was never abolished, it just got redesigned.
I read “The New Jim Crow” a couple years ago and liked it a lot. I would love for her to write a follow up that speaks more on the class components and how it intertwines with capitalism.
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I think what you've noticed is more of the vulgarizing of revolutionaries into non-threatening icons that Lenin wrote about.
It shouldn't be any surprise that capitalism has commodified liberation movements (especially with neoliberalism). That's a new potential market! Porky loves new customers.
:eco-porky: "Gimme more o' that pink capitalism."
It also tends to be white upper classs figures who assimilate because Amerika is racist apartheid state and those figures already had misaligned class interests. Stonewall was an insurrection lead by people of color. Liberation has always been intersectional.
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It’s impressive how COINTELPRO really did a number on the American left, isn’t it? The left hasn’t had any massive political power in the imperial core for decades, I don’t think most people here would argue otherwise.
Good we agree that Amerika is a racist apartheid state. Slavery is even still legal, so of course the system has been mass incarcerating people of color. The racial caste system was never abolished, it just got redesigned.
I read “The New Jim Crow” a couple years ago and liked it a lot. I would love for her to write a follow up that speaks more on the class components and how it intertwines with capitalism.