Tag: leftism

I really hate hearing other people who experience various forms of oppression be like “I wanna be a capitalist uWu”

Like:
1. They’re not gonna let you prolly, especially cause you’re from a working class background

2. If they do, it’ll only be after you’ve thrown the rest of us under the bus.

3. The systems of oppression we exist in are a direct result of the hierarchy of labor created by capitalism, so y’ know fuck off?

4. Basically we’re all escaping the misery of proletarian existence under capital or next to none of us are. Statistically, you’re not going to be one of the few.

I am nearly ready for Karaoke tonight

I have picked about six songs I know they have that I am able to consistently sing well:
Look At Me I’m Sandra Dee

Nancy Boy – Placebo

Pure Morning Placebo

Hopelessly Devoted To You

Can’t Help Loving (That Man of Mine) 

I’ll Stand By You – Pretenders

and two alternates:

Denis – Blondie 

Little Egypt – The Coasters

My hair and makeup are done, I have had a large cup of mint tea and am resting my voice.  I’m ready for this (I really really cannot sing except for traditional union songs… which are not kareoke options.)

Note to self: Union song karaoke night.

Strange to think that even today, when confronted with the autonomy of the Black movement or the autonomy of the women’s movement, there are those who talk about this “dividing the working class.” Strange indeed when our experience has told us that in order for the working class to unite in spite of the divisions which are inherent in its very structure‐factory versus plantation versus home versus schools‐those at the lowest levels of the hierarchy must themselves find the key to their weakness, must themselves find the strategy which will attack that point and shatter it, must themselves find their own modes of struggle.

Selma James – Sex, Race and Class

These power relations within the working class weaken us in the power struggle between the classes.

Selma James in Sex, Race and Class.

THIS THIS THIS

This is what I’ve been trying to say forever.  This is why I see anti-racist struggle as to my own personal benefit and why I see being corrected when I’m upholding white supremacy not as an insult to my personal worth but as helpful advice akin to 

“Don’t put that in the oven, it’d set the house on fire”