2016 Postmortem

and have never asked you to stop prioritizing it. It's just that economic justice is also part of it on its own.

It's just that social oppression can't be defeated WITHOUT economic injustice being defeated as well. The post-1965 era has shown that we can't defeat social oppression in complete isolation from everything else. Our existing economic system, at least in the largely unregulated condition it's in now, NEEDS continued bigotry, both grassroots and structural, and is going to do all it can to preserve as many forms of bigotry as possible.

And the social history absolute that countries that become more "free market" and more unequal economically always become more bigoted.

The idea is to augment and help complete your struggle, not to ask you ever to put it aside or to expect that all will be resolved "come the revolution".

We can and must fight hate AND fight greed at the same time-in distinct but connected struggles.

That's all that I've been saying and it's all, as far as I can tell, that the vast majority of economic justice advocates(many of whom-presidential politics aside, where things got distorted and previously unknown divisions were created-are people of color, are women, are LGBTQ, are Latino or Muslim or immigrants and see the fight against social oppression as a natural component of what we stand for, while recognizing it as a struggle in its own right and a distinct set of causes in its own right.

This isn't about the past-it's about unity in the future.