"What you find is, so that where police killings are the most racist, is where poverty is most racialized, and where poverty is least racialized you even find sometimes disparities: in both South Carolina and Tennessee white people are killed at a slightly higher rate by police than their overall portion of the state's population and you see that like, and there's a lot of poor white people in both those states. Which means it's, that's what you're saying, that policing is primarily about class."
"Because yes there's racism, yes there's racist attitudes, you know you got the racial segregation all that this stuff places into, but it's like, if you pull out far enough, what you see is it is fundamentally about class. It's not that race doesn't matter, it's not that immigration status doesn't matter, those matter. But if you pull out the larger thing, the deeper animating thing is class rule and the management of a totally unequal, exploited class society."
"And part of this whole thing, is also you get the thing about the difference between exploitation and oppression right? People get very confused on those things and, you know, counterintuitively, frequently, you know I think history shows that the best ways of overcoming oppression and social pressure is by fighting economic exploitation."
- Christian Parenti on Midwestern Marx
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