The language of class

The decision of the Roberts’ Court striking down a voting map in Louisiana that allowed Black people a smidgen of political representation in Congress — similar challenges are going on in other Southern States — should be an obvious and instructive example of how the struggle for Black equality, political and otherwise, should be a political imperative of the larger working class and democratic movement if those movements hope to restrain and ultimately decisively defeat Trump and the entire MAGA movement and move to higher ground.

And yet that isn’t always the case. For some on the left it is considered enough to speak the language of class, working class, and class struggle in their commentary at the present conjuncture. The special role of Black workers, Black people, and the struggle for Black equality in the present moment, not to mention at every stage of class and democratic struggle up to and including the struggle for socialism, too often goes unmentioned. And that is a moral, strategic, and ultimately self defeating mistake.