Building from Marx: Reflections on Class and Race

I know I am not alone. There must be hundreds of other women, maybe thousands, who feel as I do. There may be hundreds of men who want the same drastic things to happen. But how do you hook up with them? How can you interlink your own struggle and goals with these myriad, hypothetical people who are...

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Main Author: Bannerji, Himani 1942- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2005
In: Social justice
Year: 2005, Volume: 32, Issue: 4, Pages: 144-160
Online Access: Volltext (Verlag)
Check availability: HBZ Gateway
Keywords:
Marx, Karl, 1818-1883
Organization
Residents
PRACTICAL politics
Canadians
White people
Gender
Ethnicity
Social classes
Race
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Summary:I know I am not alone. There must be hundreds of other women, maybe thousands, who feel as I do. There may be hundreds of men who want the same drastic things to happen. But how do you hook up with them? How can you interlink your own struggle and goals with these myriad, hypothetical people who are hidden entirely or else concealed by stereotypes and/or generalities of “platform” such as any movement seems to spawn? I don't know. I don't like it, this being alone when it is clear that there will have to be multitudes working together, around the world, if radical and positive change can be forced upon the heinous status quo I despise in all its overwhelming power.—June Jordan, “Declaration of an Independence I Would Just as Soon Not Have,” in Moving Towards Home: Political Essays (1989) Reprinted by permission of the publisher.