02-28-2021, 11:43 AM
(02-28-2021, 08:48 AM)David Horn Wrote:(02-27-2021, 03:04 PM)Einzige Wrote:(02-27-2021, 02:52 PM)David Horn Wrote:(02-27-2021, 01:35 PM)Einzige Wrote:(02-27-2021, 12:33 PM)David Horn Wrote: So in response to inadequately sourced outrage, you elect to stand with the .01% of pure Marxist heart. Good luck with that.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2017/04...m-a04.html
This is a bit like quoting yourself, but assuming the reportage is not just the photo-opposite of the far-right practice, why take this as more than corporate defense? It's easy to use corporate funds to do things that will benefit the bottom line by making the company look more humane. It's cynical, but effective.
It's more than corporate defense, though it is that also - it's neutering the legitimate class anger of black American workers by uniting their interests with those of the PMCs of color employed by the official BLM organization, thereby eliminating African-Americans as a potential revolutionary locus.
In reality, a black NYC Uber driver has absolutely no shared interest with Oprah or Kenneth Frazier. But BLM exists to obscure this fact. The black proletariat needs to be armed and organized and melded into the wider militant working class.
For the corporate elites, making their lives easier is adequate payment for the shareholder money they burn. Reducing the power of any potential adversaries is icing on their cynical cake. Why is this surprising?
What surprising is how comfortable left-liberalism are with this social arrangement and the function their institutional allies perform within it.