I think the "it ISN'T about economics" argument is, ultimately, a deeply right wing position.

[Ken Burch]

49. Racism and sexism played a role...I never said they played NO role....

But what is the point of insisting that nothing else mattered?

But there is no chance of any future progressive victories anywhere if we assume that it's those things and nothing else. Insisting it is just those things gives us no strategy to work to change anything.

We ARE a country in which racism and sexism are major problems. And we need to keep fighting them and fighting them harder than ever.

But we need to fight the other forms of injustice, too.

We need to fight poverty and work to rearrange our system so that it no longer exists.

We need to fight for a full-employment, high-wage, stable-work economy.

And to reduce the control that the corporate sector has over our economic, political, and educational systems-because a society under total corporate dominance is always going to be more bigoted than a society with an egalitarian economy(in any economy, bigotry will still need to be combatted wherever it appears).

If we try to defeat social oppression without changing any other parts of the social structure, it will just keep coming back.