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What is the Left?
Stephens, R.L.
http://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/07/left-class-racism-identity-struggle-oppression/Publisher: Jacobin Resource Type: Article Cx Number: CX19835 Stephens argues that class struggle is central to overcoming oppression. Abstract: - Excerpt: At one point, the WATL writers imply that it’s whiteness and not capitalism that is the enemy and they flat out mock anyone who would say otherwise. Each year, nearly thirty million low-wage workers suffer billions of dollars of wage theft. It’s true that ethnic and gender minorities as well as women are over-represented among low-wage workers, but it’s also a fact that not all the thieving bosses are white. Wage theft by a Black boss rather than a white one in no way mitigates the loss. We Are The Left members present themselves as being “the people the Left explicitly stands in solidarity with.” That doesn’t mean much to me. A Latino and an Asian American crafted the Bush torture memos, which were then carried forward by the nation’s first Black president. The diversity at hand makes the waterboarding no less painful for those detained in Guantanamo’s dungeons. Subject Headings |