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Parting shot—a word from the editors
The Best Definition of Donald Trump We Have Found
In his zeal to prove to his antagonists in the War Party that he is as bloodthirsty as their champion, Hillary Clinton, and more manly than Barack Obama, Trump seems to have gone “play-crazy” -- acting like an unpredictable maniac in order to terrorize the Russians into forcing some kind of dramatic concessions from their Syrian allies, or risk Armageddon.However, the “play-crazy” gambit can only work when the leader is, in real life, a disciplined and intelligent actor, who knows precisely what actual boundaries must not be crossed. That ain’t Donald Trump -- a pitifully shallow and ill-disciplined man, emotionally handicapped by obscene privilege and cognitively crippled by white American chauvinism. By pushing Trump into a corner and demanding that he display his most bellicose self, or be ceaselessly mocked as a “puppet” and minion of Russia, a lesser power, the War Party and its media and clandestine services have created a perfect storm of mayhem that may consume us all.— Glen Ford, Editor in Chief, Black Agenda Report
SELECT COMMENT AnhedonicRegress • 3 hours ago It is remarkable how millionaires think they can dictate the terms of outrage for all women, everywhere. It demonstrates a startling lack of understanding, an indifference, in fact, to the plights of billions of working class and poor women all over the globe. And of course, to these layers, working men don’t count — they’re probably all “predators” anyway, right? What Driver, Aggeler, and the comfortable sections they represent mean when they suggest that all women are united — despite the oceans of wealth that separate them from most women on the planet… Read more »
Even considering the magnitude of the abuse women suffer routinely around the world, it is a bit disgusting to hear so many of these extremely privileged women, with privileged access to the media—rich in looks, wealth and sheer luck—whining about these issues, and acting inquisitorially, without paying much attention to the wider problems sinking humanity and the planet, including the very high prospect of nuclear war and life extinction itself. Talk about rotten narcissism and neurotic upper class sense of entitlement!
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Thank you for explaining that I only joked about grabbing women by the p***y and that actresses wanted to be touched on the **s and t**s. Now I feel much better as belonging to the boys….
Now I understand better Andrea Dworkin (“The nature of women’s oppression is unique: women are oppressed as women, regardless of class or race; some women have access to significant wealth, but that wealth does not signify power; women are to be found everywhere, but own or control no appreciable territory; women live with those who oppress them, sleep with them, have their children — we are tangled, hopelessly it seems, in the gut of the machinery and way of life which is ruinous to us”) and Catharine McKinnon (“The #MeToo explosion reveals the extent, abusiveness, and trauma of sexual violation.… Read more »
Misogyny is the scourge obviously of the US and it is part of its retroactive capitalist persona. Those ‘leftists’ and ‘revolutionaries’ caught in its trap are helping sustain it and thus holding up any chance for change. Their accusations against the #metoo program disavow the insight that it does not matter if you are part of the elite for women, blacks, Asians or Jews, but that you will remain an outsider to be judged insufficiently and/or discriminated against when convenient. The origins probably go back the adolescent boy hating women because he must struggle out from his mother’s power to… Read more »
A humane insight not understood in US radical politics, but quite acceptable to people struggling in other parts of the world, and why I attach the quote by C. McKinnon (it is namely something most women also understand) that Marx touches only on a part of human struggle and existence.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/12/22/not-by-bread-alone (Counterpunch, ‘Not by Bread Alone’ (Moira Maquis)
In my opinion, no feminism worthy of the name is not methodologically post-Marxist (Catherine McKinnon)