[Peace] Adolph Reed says:

[John W.]

I didn't understand a single sentence of that.


On Sun, Jul 26, 2020 at 5:10 PM David Green via Peace <
peace at lists.chambana.net> wrote:

“Notwithstanding its performative evocations of the 1960s Black Power
> populist militancy, this antiracist politics is neither leftist in itself
> nor particularly compatible with a left politics as conventionally
> understood. At this political juncture, it is, like bourgeois feminism and
> other groupist tendencies, an oppositional epicycle within hegemonic
> neoliberalism, one might say a component of neoliberalism’s critical
> self-consciousness; it is thus in fact fundamentally *anti-leftist.*
> Black political elites’ attacks on the Bernie Sanders 2016 presidential
> nomination campaign’s call for decommodified public higher education as
> frivolous, irresponsible, or even un-American underscores how deeply
> embedded this politics is within neoliberalism.”
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