• Black AOC@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 year ago

    The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s plantation; and this ‘holding the nose and supporting our enemies’ shit is the master’s tools; right up there with ‘turning the other cheek’.

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      1 year ago

      I never liked this quote.

      The plantation master’s gun shoots bullets as good as any other gun. Sure as hell seems like I can use his tools against him lol

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          1 year ago

          That’s probably right, but it sure implies the system’s tools of oppression can’t be seized and used against our oppressors. Comes across as very anarchist.

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      “The master’s tools” here would be elections, the courts, and otherwise working through the institutions of bourgeois democracy. I’m not suggesting that. I’m saying that policies like abortion are material issues that Americans do care about.