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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by dialectical_analysis_of_gock@hexbear.net to c/the_dunk_tank@hexbear.net

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A vote for Genocide Joe is a vote for Genocide

updated link as the lemmitors removed it for being "political" and then reposted it to politicalmemes

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[–] JamesConeZone@hexbear.net 36 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The White liberal is a person who defines themselves as White, as an oppressor, in short, and retreats in horror from that designation. However, they only retreat halfway, disavowing the title without giving up the privileges or tearing out, as it were. The fundamental trait of the White liberal is their desire to differentiate themselves psychologically from White Americans on the issue of race. The White liberal wants to think and wants others, namely people of color, to embrace brotherhood. White liberals have two basic aims: to prevent polarization and prevent racial conflict." - Lerone Bennet Jr

Or, perhaps even more direct here, "White liberals are attempting to work within a system which is opposed to basic change, and they do not try nor do they desire to change that system in any of its fundamentals." - Ralph Bunche

[–] JamesConeZone@hexbear.net 23 points 1 year ago

Don't make me tap the gramsci-heh

We, on the other hand, remain convinced, in the light of the revolutionary experiences of Russia, Hungary and Germany, that the socialist state cannot be embodied in the institutions of the capitalist state. We remain convinced that with respect to these institutions, if not with respect to those of the proletariat, the socialist state must be a fundamentally new creation. The institutions of the capitalist state are organized in such a way as to facilitate free competition: merely to change the personnel in these institutions is hardly going to change the direction of their activity. The socialist state is not yet communism, i.e. the establishment of a practice and an economic way of life that are communal; but it is the transitional state whose mission is to suppress competition via the suppression of private property, classes and national economies. This mission cannot be accomplished by parliamentary democracy. So the formula 'conquest of the state' should be understood in the following sense: replacement of the democratic parliamentary state by a new type of state, one that is generated by the associative experience of the proletarian class.