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Everyday I find another reason to smile at her downfall. Settlers applies to POC as much as it does white people. (Some) Black Americans really think genocide isn't something to withhold a vote over.

This in addition to the "how do I report my neighbor for being an illegal immigrant/ I want to report a lady I know for getting an abortion" posts on reddit really shows the reality of blue MAGA.

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[-] aaaaaaadjsf@hexbear.net 24 points 4 days ago

Successive waves of immigration also played a role in reinforcing American ideology. The immigrants were certainly not responsible for the poverty and oppression that lay behind their departure for the United States. But their emigration led them to give up collective struggle to change the shared conditions of their classes or groups in their native countries, and adopt instead the ideology of individual success in their adopted home. Adopting such an ideology delayed the acquisition of class consciousness. Once it began to mature, this developing consciousness had to face a new wave of immigrants, resulting in renewed failure to achieve the requisite political consciousness. Simultaneously, this immigration encouraged the “communitarianization” of U.S. society. “Individual success” does not exclude inclusion in a community of origin, without which individual isolation might become insupportable. The reinforcement of this dimension of identity—which the U.S. system reclaims and encourages—is done to the detriment of class consciousness and the forming of citizens. Communitarian ideologies cannot be a substitute for the absence of a socialist ideology in the working class. This is true even of the most radical of them, that of the black community.

The full piece is well worth a read, and not too long.

[-] GlueBear@hexbear.net 8 points 4 days ago

Thanks! This is interesting! I'd love to read more theory regarding immigrants in their new country and their relationship to class.

[-] aaaaaaadjsf@hexbear.net 6 points 4 days ago

The article is more of an overview/summary of Amin's thoughts from 2017, it's quite general and wider in scope than just that. But reading the full piece will place the quote in the appropriate context with regards to the US electoral system and structure.

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