Alex Williams and Jeremy Gilbert, "Hegemony Now: How Big Tech and Wall Street Won the World (And How We Win it Back)" (Verso, 2022)
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Are You Acting in Your Interests as White People?
We say it's important to recognize that in any actually existing modern society, contemporary society, almost any individual or group will have very complex set of interests. And so for example, i mean, what about the white worker who votes for a far right party with an anti migration agender? Or indeed, votes for something like bregset,. whom classical marxis theory insists, is voting simply against their objective interests. But our argument is there are other horizons within which people can conceive their interest. Theyare who have an interest in reproducing white supremacy. Under racial capitalism, white workers are rewarded fr being right. This would be their interest, as conceived in classical marxism
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