[Peace] Adolph Reed says:

[David Green]

Police violence correlates more with class than race. BLM is in support of
Democrats, who are equally if not more responsible for neoliberalism and
accompanying state violence. Trump is used to justify BLM supported
destruction in working class urban communities. We should oppose Trump and
BLM.

On Sun, Jul 26, 2020, 9:52 PM John W. <jbw292002 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Jul 26, 2020 at 9:40 PM David Green <davidgreen50 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Corporate and foundation funded anti-racism, including BLM, is a bourgeois
>> neoliberal project of the professional-managetial class, including POC. It
>> is fundamentally antagonistic to the working class. Thus, we should oppose
>> BLM, which I do.
>>
>
> Ah.  So boiled down to its essence and attempting to put matters into
> plain English, demanding that the police treat Black people the same way
> they treat white people, and quit murdering unarmed Black people wantonly,
> is somehow antagonistic to the working class?  Asking for a friend, if I
> had one.
>
>
>
>
>
>> On Sun, Jul 26, 2020, 9:32 PM John W. <jbw292002 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> 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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