I think it's as Fanon says, Marxist analysis should always be slightly stretched every time we have to deal with the colonial issue.
And in the case of Black people in the US, those in unofficial/illegal employment are more accurately understood as internally colonized peoples that are being superexploited by the colonial situation.
Offering to give you “all the kingdoms of the world” doesn’t sound like he’s liberating anybody. It sounds like he’s offering to subjugate the world for you.
Is that not what democracy is? Caesar is gone. All the kingdoms of the world belong to us, now. We have all raised our thrones above the stars of God when we cast off the divine right of kings and declared that all are created equal. Now we, too, are like the most high because we have become the gods of our world - we have even ascended to the heavens above the tops of clouds.
While Jesus was telling us to render unto Caesar what is Caesar's, Satan offered those he tempted all the kingdoms of the world.
And now we don't even need him anymore because God is dead, and we killed him.
I just canceled my plasma donation appointment for today.
I keep throwing up and passing out, it hurts to get stabbed, I can't do any lifting for 4-5 hours after, I'm scared the whole day before (am I eating enough protein? enough carbs? enough electrolytes? drinking enough water??) and it's so exhausting.
Satan tempted people with power, narcissism, and greed.
Well. He tempted Jesus, but what did he tempt him with? Food when he was hungry and freedom when he was fated to die.
We are told by priests to interpret these things as narcissism and greed, but it's the "greed" of an empty belly and the "narcissism" of the will to live. Convenient, because they're telling the poor to meekly accept their hunger and hopelessness and powerlessness. It is a sin to demand dignity and full bellies, so they say, and those are the temptations of Satan.
Jesus was anti-revolutionary. Satan was the rebel who defied the heavens.
This is already a compromise. The far left answer to small business owners is to expropriate your capital and force you to get a job like everyone else.
Besides that, workers outnumber business owners 170.7 million to 36.2 million. You're a really tiny voting bloc and most of you vote Republican in every election anyway, so who cares what you think?
I think it's as Fanon says, Marxist analysis should always be slightly stretched every time we have to deal with the colonial issue.
And in the case of Black people in the US, those in unofficial/illegal employment are more accurately understood as internally colonized peoples that are being superexploited by the colonial situation.