...because agitprop also thinks bush may try to nullify the 22nd amendment in the name of national security. i'm sure, like me, he's joking, but let me reveal a little something about myself, since you're actually not reading this, i'm taking this a little bit seriously. i'm trying hard not to be a conspiracy nut, but has any one person done more to make conspiracy theories hip again than president trip and fall? he makes war on false pretenses; he authorizes torture; he spies on americans. i don't think i could have made this stuff up five years ago, i'd have laughed at myself and called me a cynical extremist nut.
One of the things that prevents me from writing more often is the sense that I'm just writing the same thing repeatedly from a slightly different angle. In a nutshell, all I'm saying is that moral idealism substituted for material goals will not lead to justice, but is an argument against materialism. I'm a dumb person's low rent Adolph Reed Jr. translator. I'm a "class reductionist" who understands that when the discourse is reduced to just class there's nothing as important as food, water and shelter that's left out. I often find myself contending with people who insist that there is, unable to name anything. They don't understand that they're making an argument against economic redistribution, or they don't care. There are no concrete manifestations of systemic racism or any oppression that are not dealt with through economic redistribution. When people say that economic redistribution won't end racism, what they mean is that
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