David Sackman
Oct 9, 2021

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Well said. That is why I do not like this term. That "worldview" is the basic mythology of capitalism - that every man (women do not exist in the myth of capitalism) is an island onto himself, interacting with others only in discrete market transactions. Intersectionality assumes every person, every struggle, is linear; its epiphany is that these lines intersect in two dimensions.

But the universe is not two-dimensional either. We are not static, but moving through time, more like a current of water than lines on a chalkboard.

This may sound esoteric, but it points to the fundamental flaw of this worldview as making artificial divisions among us. It also points to the answer. The answer to racism is not anti-racism, but solidarity. As Ricardo Flores Magon said: "Solidarity is the consciousness of the common interest, and the actions which follow from that consciousness."

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David Sackman
David Sackman

Written by David Sackman

Wherever I go, I am where I came from. Always a stranger in a strange land; yet always home. I claim no land, but take responsibility for all land.

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