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I understand your rage. Just please, try to push your knowledge a little deeper.
Not all white individuals are colonialists, and I'm not a white person, by the way.
Some individuals, sure, white, I'd give it to you, did describe it. But those individual intellectuals were the counter-thinkers to white colonialists. Would you agree with me about it?
Scapegoats are always different. And the individuals directing the public opinion, the people you just called colonialists, we, here, at lemmygrad, call capitalists. They are the same. The rich minority, controlling the means of productions and the public opinion thought the media they control, creating escape goats, one at a time. That's one of the products of fascism. The capitalists are just above it, seeding and using fascism against the minorities your mention.
Fascism is stupidity and ignorance. The capitalists are the brains behind it, using it to their advantage.
We hate the same people, me and you, we just call them different names. But you don't have to, they have been the same for a good while, let's just agree with a precise definition and terminology to avoid raging at the abstract.
Rage at the specific! It's hard, that's why we write so much! And that's why we call them capitalists.
@nephs Look, racism has been around WAY longer than class struggle. You don't want to call them capitalists. Even Mao made a distinction between national capitalism and compradore capitalism. I don't hate anybody. I know my enemies are not the people who want to start their own businesses. They are the people who want to deny any good things to the people they don't like. Socialism hasn't cured racism or sexism in >100 years. Get real. It never will.
I can agree racism exists before capitalism.
I can agree socialism isn't the cure for racism or sexism. And I believe everyone in this forum will condemn any form of socialism that marginalises minorities, either for race, or gender, or any other oppressed minorities.
"socialism" without concern for minorities drifts into the authoritarian regimes we know are shit. But also, minority fights without class theory will just make a few individuals from each minority group slightly better, without actually improving material life conditions for most, if not all, people.
But... I mean, I'm just kind of freestyling the theory I "know". Fuck racists, fuck capitalists, fuck racist capitalists and capitalist racists. :)
Read on Authority (it's like a page long)
A link for the masses: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1872/10/authority.htm
My argument was not against authority, my argument was against oppression against minorities.
Which concepts would you use to make the argument against oppressing minorities?
The parallel I was trying to draw was about minority abstract fights, without class theory becomes identitarism. But a "socialist" fight without concern for minorities, runs the risk of becoming fascism, on the limit, running purely on dogma, tradition, majority, and rigidity.
Is that disagreeable? Am I mixing up concepts? What am I missing?