Can you name the race that, if it stopped existing, the white race would stop existing?
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Replying to @ILoveUTigerLily @arthur_affect
The "white" race positions itself in opposition (and as superior) to *all other* "races" that come and go. The "white" race hasn't always existed, nor has it always existed in the form it has now. But it needs an "other" to position itself as better than. That's what it *means.*
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Replying to @Eristae @arthur_affect
I’m not sure if you’re trying to say “European ethnic identification doesn’t exist” or “European ethnic identification has historical baggage.” but people who come from Europe are going to have some ethnic identification regardless of their relative power or lack thereof.
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You can easily imagine some alternate universe where some other race has oppressed what we call white people, but there isn’t even an imaginary universe where labor oppresses capital. That’s what I mean by a mechanical nature, and that’s why I don’t call class identity-based.
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... "The dictatorship of the proletariat" is right there in marxist text as an intermediate step towards socialism. You may not imagine it, but it is literally built into the concept of class warfare.
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There’s never any point where labor oppresses capital because, at any point, any capitalist can instantly stop being a capitalist and, health dependent, start being a laborer.
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If money actually worked the way the on-paper institutions and laws said it did, sure, this would be true My argument is that in the world as we actually live it, this is false, and this falsehood cuts to the core of what was so challenging about Marxist revolutions in real life
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Replying to @arthur_affect @ILoveUTigerLily and
The USSR and PRC never achieved that classless society because, wouldn't you know it, that "class consciousness" is remarkably persistent no matter what you do
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Replying to @arthur_affect @ILoveUTigerLily and
The weird thing here is that I think I am a "class reductionist" in that I think race/gender/sexuality/all that good stuff *is class*, they are all "class structures"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @ILoveUTigerLily and
But what YOU call "class" is an extremely weaksauce definition of "class" (which is why the new breed of academics went looking for new words like "power structure" and "marginalization") There is so much more to it than what is written down on pieces of paper
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This is why I hate the Marxist cultural thing of pitting "idealism" against "materialism" so much It's really just a preference for an institutional, "rationalized" lens (Weber's terminology) for measuring the world, but it's not "material"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @ILoveUTigerLily and
Like come on A briefcase of $100 bills, a title deed to an apartment building, a 51% controlling share in a C-corp All of them are just pieces of paper, ideas in someone's head Snap your fingers and reset the world with no institutional memory, they're all just toilet paper
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Replying to @arthur_affect @ILoveUTigerLily and
They *seem* more real than other things because they're *written down*, because the system says they're real, but the system is a fucking lie A real radical should know that, and know that lies are always motivated
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