- Re: Anti-capitalism is not anti-semitism Archived Message
- Anti-capitalism is not anti-semitism - margo March 7, 2019, 9:57 am
Posted by margo
on March 7, 2019, 10:27 am, in reply to "Anti-capitalism is not anti-semitism"
ending paragraphs ... and one or two comments lost within a thread populated by trolls, unfortunately...  Previous MessageOff-Guardian -- {...] They are saying it out loud. They are shouting it in our faces – STOP TALKING ABOUT INEQUALITY. STOP TALKING ABOUT POVERTY. STOP TALKING ABOUT SOCIALISM. Arch-capitlalist and ad-man extraordinaire Don Draper’s most famous quote is “If you don’t like what’s being said, change the conversation.” That is what is going on here. Wealth redistribution is being rebranded as antisemitism. Criticising billionaires is now “prejudice against people of means”. Blaming the rich 1% will be called “hate speech”. The media haven’t turned against Corbyn’s Labour party because of antisemitism – they have invented antisemitism as a reason to turn against the only mainstream party dedicated to ending austerity and implementing socialist politics. This, in a nutshell, is the whole purpose of identity politics – to distract, divide and disenfranchise. A sudden, violent narrowing of the Overton window to protect the super-rich from the fully justified anger of the working class. The end product of all this talk about race and gender and privilege is, to quote Jonathan Pie, “Thatcherism with diversity quotas”. A world of perpetual neo-liberal austerity, and a mass of cowed citizens afraid of complaining for fear of being convicted of a hate crime. The establishment wants us to stop talking about class. They want us to leave the billionaires alone. They want us to shut up about socialism. They want us to accept that being anti-capitalist is inherently morally wrong. And the more we talk about this fictional antisemitism, the more they win. related b-t-l comments: Thanks for this excellent article Kit. You finish by quite rightly fingering identity politics as an important factor in the advent of this bullshit. Examining a lot of the people who pile in on Corbyn, we find similar trends: they were often parachuted into constituencies by Blair, often on the back of all-women shortlists; the older hands were universally supporters of bombing wherever; they universally support the NATO alliance (I’m old enough to remember when Joan Maynard, Ernie Ross and others were MPs), by and large they support the EU uncritically and a significant number were post-graduate students at US universities. Funnily enough, these are “qualities” they share with many leading liberal journalists. Sometimes they are non-white or gay – it doesn’t take much imagination to see future all black, all gay, all transgender etc. shortlists. I don’t give a shit about my representative’s race, gender, sexual orientation etc. etc. The important thing that Blair did was to exclude socialists from any shortlist. That’s the issue now: to make sure that if Labour IS a socialist party, then its elected representatives should come from all-socialist shortlists, regardless what they look like, what’s between their legs or what they do in private. ----- I agree with this article. Indeed it should not even have to be said. Anti-semitism should not be a topic of every other article here, appear in nearly all blogs, nor be the measuring stick for national, political, or social ills. Isn’t it time to have the focus on world peace, climate change, child abuse, and hunger and malnutrition to name a few of the hundreds of more important issues? Systematic corruption of the MSM leads the first world problem list... |
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