But, above all else, in the US every movement must consider carefully how its politics fit into the overall context of white supremacy. But there’s hope: when the system of white supremacy is in crisis — which means that enough crazy motherfucking white people reject their whiteness in solidarity with people of color that the reactionary system can no longer be counted on to undermine class solidarity — amazing things happen. The very explosions insurrectionists desire manifest! The women’s movement emerges. Gender and sexual relations shift. And on and on. Capital becomes weak and stumbles. The Reconstruction legislature of South Carolina sent revolutionary salutations to the Paris Commune. Think about that. The capitalist machine counts on the alliance of whiteness to create within struggles an emergency escape hatch for white people of all classes. This must be refused.
White supremacy may seem quaint and “olde timey” in the age of a Black president, but it’s grip is still on us. It is the cross class alliance that time and time again turns the white working class against what would otherwise be its comrades. It is the knife’s edge of Capital. If the student movement can generalize itself, whatever else it does, it must attack white supremacy head on. This is what will throw the system into crisis. This contradiction is what will build that unstoppable constituency that will overturn Capital.
Think insurrection. Think John Brown. Think Bleeding Kansas. Think solidarity. Death to Capital.
— Some thoughts on the ongoing student struggle from someone who is not a student
