I think the "it ISN'T about economics" argument is, ultimately, a deeply right wing position.

[Ken Burch]

25. I didn't say any person was right wing. I said an argument was right wing.

(I've added an edit to my OP to clarify that).

It can't be a left argument(or a pragmatically effective argument) to claim that social oppression can be defeated without any significant moves towards a more egalitarian economic model.

Social oppression can and must be combatted and organized against...but unconstrained corporate power is always going to put strict limits on the degree to which social oppression can be reduced.

There is a link between the forms of oppression, and each will try to keep the other in continued existence.

For example, one of the major reasons we have seen the militarization of the police(and the argument that police should see the cities they patrol as war zones and whole groups of people as "the enemy&quot a militarization that has played a major role in the epidemic of police violence against people of color, is that there are huge profits to be made selling the police all that hardware, as well as in prison construction and the various other profit centers of what I once heard Fred Hampton Jr. describe as the prison-industrial complex.