The Last Great Discrimination

While social movements have fought for equal rights based on the wholeness of one’s person over narrow-minded reductions of individuals to a seemingly inferior aspect (i.e. black. woman, etc…), capitalism not only fosters reducing an individual to a singular aspect of their being—capital worth—but encourages it. This social classism results in discrimination of the capital-poor, who lack access to proper health care, well-funded schools, higher education, and safe neighborhoods.

This capitalist reduction of individual-as-person to person-as-capital bearer fosters social bigotry; for example, we think nothing of the everyday semantic valuation or devaluation of people-in-general to people-as-bearers-of capital, resulting in simplistic, narrow-minded dysphemisms which create implied stratification: the capital poor as poor-in-general, the capital sufficient as the middle class, and the capital-excessive as upper class.

Capitalist classism is the last socially acceptable discrimination, fostered from cradle to grave. To deny minorities health-care, education, and civil rights due to one aspect of their being--skin color--would result in nothing less than a modern day Civil War. Yet, that is exactly what we do to the capital-poor everyday, and not so much as an eye is batted in their direction by Washington.

This Last, Great Discrimination must fall, and it will only fall when the oppressed awaken from their slumber and take back Washington from the oppressors--the corporate, capitalist class that politicians of all levels work for.

Revolutionarily yours,
Thommunist