The headline is 100% correct, but any argument that posits a binary between liberals who want democratic norms and leftists who want economic restructuring, without a thorough examination of social change & reaction, is missing at least half the story. http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/05/americas-brand-of-capitalism-is-incompatible-with-democracy.html …
BUT also I have to recognize that bc I'm a middle class queer black person largely assimilated into this straight white world, I am most likely to benefit from social change, and frankly, most likely to suffer from economic redistribution (I should 100% pay more in taxes).
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so me constantly thinking "please keep my shit on the agenda too" may be self-serving, representative of a narrow slice of materially-comfortable interests rather than the broader swaths of people an economic justice agenda might benefit.
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OTOH, maybe I'm right and the straight white men who still control most political power will enact nominally "race-neutral," "gender-neutral," "accessible" "welcoming" pro-worker policies that just happen to further entrench power differentials along identity lines.
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oh nevermind I read another article by the same author; he ain't really worried about us, lol. "Make white people care more about their class than their race" is both less ethically sound and less electorally viable than a lot of (left-leaning) white folks think.
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