History of Feminism

My issue is that I don't think social and economic issues can be separated, and indeed, I think it's the greatest problem within the Democratic Party and liberal movements as a whole. You say that we have a pattern of othering groups of people based on skin color or ethnicity, or gender, and that is what leads to inequality. I would argue that the pattern of othering groups comes most strongly from economic motivations, inextricably linking them.

A good example is that of mass incarceration. The drug war is racist, but above all it is about profit. They use racism to dehumanize and justify the assault on a people, just like they do with Iraqis and Afghans. That social issue (mass incarceration, racism, police brutality) is not separable from the economic background. To attempt to solve the racial issue without addressing the profit issue will not solve anything just as the reverse is true.

I think you might find this OP I wrote a few days ago interesting: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026584017

Apologies for the length, I will be rewriting that and reposting that at some point in the future.