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rot wrote

the campaign against racial injustice to provoke a fight in pursuit of other causes, such as anti-capitalism.

yes the white only view that capitalism has something deeply wrong with it.

I'm very suspicious of people who complain about white protestors "taking over" a movement as if there can't be solidarity between races against cops. Remember when people attacked a white woman for vandalism during a protest and it was later discovered that she was the girlfriend of a victim of the police?

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celebratedrecluse wrote

it's a very old tactice, used in North America as COINTELPRO to Occupy and onward, but is also the root of politicized racial labour suppression and race itself if you read pre-USA history of Bacon's Rebellion and Stono Rebellion, back to the era of very early English settler colonialism. While what exploited often is, is also Not always a racial division, you can also divide people by other fault lines too.

but the origination of racial divisions between white and Black in USA is deeply embedded with this context of using it to mobilize white people against black people rising up and isolate them from support in struggle. Thus making the uprisings, some of the bloodiest labour disputes of history, less likely to generalize and easier for the state and capital to control.

Hard to say what's happening, but it seems relevant to consider the context. North America has a very long and impressive history of labour conflict, and it is deeply embedded with the development of constructs of race as exported to the rest of the world

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