It's interesting, I'm talking about material conditions that will create worldvision, capitals and struggle (or the absence of struggle) and your first reflex is to try to counter that by asking me if all black people have the same values... Once again showing me why your are not thinking in a materialistic way, but an idealistic way. "Why is that ?" you may ask..
Well.. Simply because material conditions are not just one thing, but a "box" of many.
By trying to reduce those material conditions to one simple thing to try to prove me wrong, you are simply demonstrating that you refuse for this concept of material conditions to be a "complex" interesection of multiple factors. Thus showing that it's not me that you try to fight, but your perception of what my vision of the world is.
It's not only about thinking, it's about being and living. You will rarely see black people who do not have the understanding of systemic racism in their core. It can happen yes (Zemmi is an exemple) but most racialized people will know what systemic racism means, because they live it. Hence, they will - in similar material conditions - find themselves to vote for the same values.
In this case, it's not their thought that are similar, but their conditions of existence that create those thought process. Just like it is logical for those who were internalized in psychiatric hospitals to developp a big anti-psychiatric reasonning.
You will have exception, of course, that will create various differences, but on the basis of their material condition, people will often adopt a similar belief system against a similar oppressive system.
And what works with oppression, works with the reverse: The enforcement of oppressions.
One do not become a cop because they want to fight the system or end capitalism or because they see protesters as friends. They want to become a cop because the system made them believe that their job was essential to maintain peace, that cops were a form of heroes, that they could be someone who helps people and that order was a necessity for any society.
But the material conditions do not end there. Being a cop also means that one must want to protect the institution of the police and the state.
You can't be anticapitalist and against the oppressions of a system, be aware of those oppression and play an active part in the system and institution. That's an illusion and what liberalism is, it's not leftism and it's not anticapitalism. It only works in movies.
Anticapitalists KNOW that there is no such thing as a reformation of an oppressive system such as the capitalist state. They want the END of capitalism, not patches on a sinking boat.
By their structural and material nature, ALL Capitalist States are :
- Imperialists and colonialists
- Racist
- Patriarcal and sexist
- Heteronormative
- Ableist
On top of being completely meritocratic.
And all bare the seeds of fascism.
Those oppressions come from the fundamental structuration of states and systems and are enforced by all institution (including the police and the justice system), reforms will never fix that completely. As such, protectors of those systems will NEVER be anticapitalist.
You can try to work your way around that concept all you want and call me an authoritarian all day long.
The reality is that I'm the one questionning your authority and trying to change the system of this forum and you are the moderator who oppose me.
