“Was not their mistake once more bred of the life of slavery that they had been living?—a life which was always looking upon everything, except mankind, animate and inanimate—‘nature,’ as people used to call it—as one thing, and mankind as another, it was natural to people thinking in this way, that they should try to make ‘nature’ their slave, since they thought ‘nature’ was something outside them” — William Morris


Friday, December 20, 2024

"Culture" vs "Class" Is a Fake Binary

Media is full of it now. And it's BS. It's designed to divide us, and we need solidarity like never before. It's an easy "elite" versus "popular," mapped onto "middle class" versus "working" class, mapped yet more sinisterly onto "Black" versus "white." As if anti-racism were expendable in an emergency. 

The immaturity of some leftists in the USA as they eagerly contribute to this "debate" is staggering. 

So here's Timothy Snyder laying it down very very nicely for you: 


Class War or Culture War? by Timothy Snyder

Both

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