JamesMuenchen wrote:servodude wrote:Lootman wrote:All political activism is predicated upon one class of people seeking to gain some kind of benefit or advantage, at the expense of some other class of people.
So whether it is white versus non-white, protestant versus catholic, landlord versus tenant, employer versus worker or whatever, the underlying theme is basically derived from Karl Marx, which I always interpreted thus:
1) Divide people into two classes. Forget that they are individuals. Just classify them.
2) Then make some argument that one of these two classes is inherently more worthy than the other class. Paint one as good and one as bad.
3) Justify activism, protests, pressure, revolution and any other effort based on the moral superiority of one class over the other, predicated rather conveniently on the arbitrary classifications and generalisations that you made in (1) and (2) above.
Bingo. Cue endless whining and kvetching about oppressors and victims, all in the name of some contrived and self-serving sense of "justice".
Not a fan of universal suffrage are we?
- sd
That's a nice leap.
I just don't see how it fits with:
All political activism is predicated upon one class of people seeking to gain some kind of benefit or advantage, at the expense of some other class of people.
Did it come at the expense of men?
Or was it simply equality that was gained through activism?
-sd