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- Beyond the Spectacle
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Our initial reaction to the Rachel Dolezal story was: what's the big deal? America has always been a land of shape shifters, and if she isn't stopped for "driving while black" or followed while shopping, and if her sons are not targeted by cops, then how is she different from the politician who is Italian on Columbus Day and Irish on Saint Patrick's Day?
- Class-Struggle Road to Black Freedom: Part Two
Marxism vs. the Myth of "White Skin Privilege"
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
The victory of the socialist revolution in this country will be achieved through the united struggle of black and white workers.
- Class-Struggle Road to Black Freedom: Part One
The Roots of Black Oppression
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
The purpose of this talk is to motivate a Marxist materialist program for the fight for black freedom as opposed to the idealism embodied in both black nationalism and guilty white liberalism, including the concept of “white skin privilege,” which falsely substitutes individual psychology for struggle against the racial oppression rooted in the capitalist profit system. We fight for black freedom on the program of revolutionary integration including mobilizing the working class against every manifestation of racial oppression. This approach is counterposed to liberal integration, which is premised on the utopian notion that equality for black people can be attained within the confines of this class society founded on black oppression.
- Complicating "White Privilege"
Class, Race and Images of Wilma
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
The most heavy-handedly enforced rule, and the one we, in the white privilege brigade, still seem determined to protect with the greatest earnestness, dictates that Nobody shall, during a conversation about white privilege, mention any identity that is not a racial identity or any oppression that is not racism. To my knowledge, there is no official rulebook governing conversations about white privilege. If such a rulebook did exist, though, I am sure that this rule would be printed in bold italics.
- I Am a Woman and a Human: A Marxist-Feminist Critique of Intersectionality Theory
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
In the United States, during the late 20th and early 21st centuries, a specific set of politics among the left reigns king. Today, you could go into any university, on any number of liberal-to-left blogs or news websites, and the words “identity” and “intersectionality” will jump out you as the hegemonic theory. But, like all theories, this corresponds to the activity of the working class in response to the current composition of capital.
- Is there a White Skin Privilege?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
The idea that all whites are privileged at the expense of Blacks is popular on the left -- but Bill Mullen makes the case that Marxism offers a better understanding of racism.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - May 21, 2015
A Healthier Planet
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2015
With the start of the growing season in much of the Northern hemisphere, Other Voices digs up articles and resources related to urban agriculture and local food production. Urban agriculture - growing food in and around cities - is a response to the problems created by industrial agriculture, a chemical-dependent industry shipping food thousands of miles from where it is produced to where it will be consumed. We also mark the release of Omar Khadr, the former child soldier who was abused, tortured, and imprisoned first by the U.S. government and then by Canada. Other articles look at the advances made by women in Latin America, privilege politics, and the myths of peaceful protests.
- Privilege politics is reformism
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
A critique of privilege politics, which the author sees as a demobilizing force that boils down issues of oppression into what happens between individuals.
- Prospects for an Alt-Left
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
Examining the limitations and issues with prevalent approaches of younger progressives and how a more effective 'alt-left' movement might be formed.
- Six Questions About Your Class Location that EverydayFeminism.com Isn't Asking You to Think About
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Solidarity doesn’t exist, like a material object, the way tables and chairs do. Solidarity is the confidence we can sometimes have that others, sharing with us a common enemy and a core of overlapping aspirations, will have our back when we find ourselves under attack, or when we need their support to win a crucial struggle. We don't stumble upon solidarity when poring over statistics; we won't find it by comparing our pay stubs with that of the worker down the street. We forge it in common struggle
- Towards a Marxist Critique of 'Privilege Theory'
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
A contribution by Tad Tietze to an ongoing debate on Marxism and 'privilege theory.'
- What’s wrong with privilege theory?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
This article takes a critical look at some of the theories of privilege and concepts of intersectionality (the interaction of multiple oppressions) that increasingly dominate battles for liberation. These ideas are not new, but have grown in influence in recent years.
- Why the Right Loves Privilege Politics
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
The Right deploys privilege politics to avoid class politics, obscuring where the real power lies in our society.
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