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When discussing racism and white supremacy, we should probably start with the fact that “white” people (Europeans) created “whiteness” and “race” to begin with.
“... when European indentured servants joined with Blacks to rebel against their lot in the late 1600s, the propertied class decided to ‘free’ them by giving them a special status as ‘whites’ and thus a stake in the system of oppression.”

– Ervin

Source: theanarchistlibrary.org/library/lorenz…
An old thread that could use some updating, but that is a good extension of this discussion.

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Many people are looking at the totality of this monster of Capitalism, white supremacy, patriarchy, and other social systems of domination, and are overwhelmed, asking members of our organization, “What do I do?”

The answer is:

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What gets under our skin, besides the fact that the collective Left in the U.S. doesn’t seem willing to move on a concrete socioeconomic program, is that... the collective Left doesn’t have a concrete socioeconomic program, and thus isn’t oriented toward transformative solutions.
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The first day of our December fundraiser is today.

Because of your donations last December, we survived, grew, and delivered on the Dual Power Map.

We wanna go way bigger in 2020.

And Cooperation Jackson is our fiscal sponsor this time, which means your donations are tax-empt.
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Our goal for this month is $40k ($10k more than last year’s).
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