18/Does the cultural left now intend simply to hack and chop away at modern society? Is the struggle now the goal, rather than the means?
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19/Is American culture now divided into movements that have no idea of what they want to build, and just want to fight?
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20/This, much more than Trump, is why I've become disillusioned with politics. I find myself wanting those utopian dreams back. (end)
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I mean... is "the end of white supremacy" so much less clear a utopia than "the dictatorship of the proletariat"?
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Sure, but what else is there in its place?
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If your only answer is "not that horrible thing" then you're illustrating his point, and the problem.
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Replying to @youbunchofmarks @Noahpinion
Fair! The real answer is: institutions that militate against any interest group gaining hegemonic power over any other interest group.
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Replying to @csilverandgold @Noahpinion
And then several thousand pages of writing defining those terms and speculating on what such institutions might look like, lol.
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Replying to @csilverandgold @Noahpinion
(That's just my answer. I doubt very much that it is the answer of any critical race theorists, who we really ought to be asking.)
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Perhaps the issue is that "current society, but without racism" doesn't strike people as utopia. Better, but still with huge flaws.
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Well in that case maybe racial justice movements aren't utopian by definition...?
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