[Marxism] The shifting ruling class mainstream
Mark Lause
markalause at gmail.com
Sat Dec 6 13:50:12 MST 2008
Dayne Goodwin <daynegoodwin at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Oh, Obama is Black!
>
> Well, if i had known that...
>
> i wouldn't have cared that he is a mainstream bourgeois politician and was
> the shoo-in presidential candidate of the capitalist two-party system.
>
> i would have voted for him too.
>
And the predictable chorus line of straw men kick their way out of the
wings.....
Some of you are confounding.... (1) whether politically to support
Obama; and (2) an analysis of what his election means.
I would be surprised that otherwise intelligent folks can't understand
this different.
In this specific case, (1) Obama was not supportable on any level, as
far as I was conderned; and (2) the election of an African-American to
the presidency isn't the same thing as the election of a 44th old
white guy to the presidency.
I find it mind-numbing that people can't simply agree on that. Don't
worry, there's plenty more shit over which we can argue
legitimately....
ML
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