Anarchy In the Age of Dinosaurs
Part 5:
-The Abolition of Outreach
This is a very important section.
Race is an essential aspect of State oppression and a bulwark of exploitative capitalism. No genuine challenge to the State OR Capitalism in the U.S. can fail to ignore racismâs importance in maintaining the current system and neither should we anarchists.
This section discusses at length how mostly-white anarchist collectives employ exploitative tokenism and extensive outreach programs aimed at the recruitment of people of color, in particular black people. These actions and other failed holdovers from the Left have not made anarchist communities in the U.S. a welcome place for blacks. This issue is much less common in other countries and anarchist communities around the world, since the majority of anarchists world-wide ARE people of color!
We must be transparent and participate in shared activities taking place in ALL communities and create new ways of thinking about race in our anarchist communities in order to stop the paternalistic behavior that we have worked with for so long.
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