Seriously seriously you HAVE to read this.
Tag: Selma James
We offer them what we offer the most privileged women: power over their enemies. The price is an
end to their privilege over us.
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.
Sex, race and class – Selma James
This is so good. Read it.
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”