A fundamental misunderstanding of the relationship between economic and social justice.

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24. A FB "friend", who happens to be black and somewhat well-known........

in social justice circles put it best IMO. He said that any analysis that comes from either direction that doesn't account for the other wing of the "Vulture of Injustice" (don't blame Jon, that's my phrase ) is incomplete.

IOW, any class based analysis needs to understand that there is a component of special oppression for selected minority groups and any social justice analysis needs to understand that there is a class issue involved. Either one that relies ONLY on social justice or ONLY on economic justice is not going to be able to get at the root of the problem.

As to the folks who think that means their wing has to take a back seat until the other is accomplished, then they misunderstand the way oppression exists and operates in society and what it takes to fight oppression. ANY oppression needs to be confronted ANY time it appears. There might be triage in individual struggles and to what is emphasized in a particular place and time, but it IS all interconnected under capitalism.

The sucking chest wound of police terror against black folks will kill you, but so will the cancer of wealth inequality under capitalism. So they BOTH have to be confronted.