What is Antiracism? | Ruth Wilson Gilmore and Arun Kundnani

[@heathers.7975]

"...fascism...is ripe and growing. Fascism is ideology, system and outcome with racism at its core."

[@kc0itf]

Dude, it's OK to use capitalism... ENJOY CAPITALISM!

[@jirehla-ab1671]

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[@yuothineyesasian]

The reason liberalism has been ineffective at combating racism is because there are differences between groups of people. Only a totalitarian, Orwellian state could erase those differences at the expense of taking from one to give to another according to the bias of politicians.

[@TheDraxton]

Kind of an odd place to be a troll

[@madeinengland1212]

@@TheDraxton yeah this is a Marxist echo chamber here, how dare he.

[@kc0itf]

is racism they are talking about skin color or the capitalist "rat race"?

[@didymussumydid9726]

@@madeinengland1212 Such a profound echochamber that the mere existence of someone representing a coherent dissident opinion presents a literally unsolvable brainbusting mystery, prompting the tentative guess "Must be a troll?" lmao

[@beyondaboundary6034]

It's not erasing differences between people to question the division of humanity into 4 or 5 "races" invented in the 1700s and 1800s. Kundnani is not arguing against ethnic identities, which predated the invention of ludicrous constructs like "the white race" or "the black race" and will outlive them. Also the historical reality is that BOTH socialism and capitalism can take the form of authoritarian dictatorships. If authoritarian capitalist states don't discredit all forms of capitalism, why do authoritarian socialist states discredit all forms of socialism? Democratic socialists like Martin Luther King, Jr. supported something closer to Scandinavian social democracy than Stalin's USSR. Call that capitalism if you want, but there are many working examples of worker co ops, socialized medicine, social housing, etc. existing in predominantly capitalist market economies with multiparty elections. Why can't that successful hybrid be built upon further? Democratic socialists want to combine universal healthcare, housing, etc. with antiracism, not authoritarianism or denying the existence of ethnic group identities.