US ambassador killed over a film

[FireIceTalon]

@ Meat I'm by no means a Maoist, but I would agree with most of that article you linked. Crime and poverty are a vicious, endless cycle, and they are both a byproduct and necessitation of the Capitalist mode of production. Racism plays a VERY important role in this system, because it too, is also necessary for state to fulfill its own role as protecting private capital, as one aspect. Another is that such divisions are necessary to hinder working class solidarity so workers are alienated from one another along national, religious and ethnic lines. The ruling class in America has always been predominantly white, wealthy males - from the countries founding to the present. Poverty and our legal system is just a newer and more efficient way of suppressing minorities, instead of outright enslaving them or Jim-Crowe segregation, although poverty in itself is segregation minus the "separate but equal" slogan. It is designed so that minorities, at best, are kept at their station, and at worst, complete hopelessness.

As far as looks go, it is just too easy to use this to flash a badge and gun around. almost every cop I ever met was a vain, egotistical asshole. As far as drugs go, well, that is whole other can of worms I won't get into in this post, since drugs themselves are not a criminal problem, but rather a medical one.

I don't know man. As a Marxist, I've learned to view people very differently from how the average person does. When I see an African American person walk into Starbucks, I don't see an African American person, just a person. The same is true of any other social construct that is used to classify people into groups of any kind. You're a Christian? A Muslim? Nope, to me you are just another human being. Probably the number one virtue of being a Communist, is having a love for all of humanity, regardless of their ethnicity, religious beliefs, gender, sexual preference, whether they have a disability or not, or whatever. Basically, I don't form any judgements or preconceived notions on an individual until I learn something about them by communicating with them.

I just feel like, that we (Communists) have evolved beyond the divisions, stereotypes, ignorance, hatred of those who are viewed as "others", or what we call as "conventional wisdom" within our culture, and we are frustrated as we watch the rest of the world slowly try to catch up to us.

I know you don't want to believe America is this horrible racist and bigoted country, because we were all taught at a very young age that our country was great and that besides a few hiccups, we have a wonderful history. But nothing could be farther from the truth comrade, and the reality is, even now in the 21st century, we are still a very very racist, homophobic, and reactionary country in general. We aren't the only one of course, but for as much chest pounding as we do, and as much as we yell about "American Exceptionalism", we don't have much to show for it.