Equality does not mean special rights for some & not for others....

Actually it's a quote about how communism worked out in the Soviet Union. You may want to re-read the book.

The animals rebel against an unequal and exploitative capitalist plantation, then establish a communist government which still maintains elitism. Orwell was a critic of state socialism but that doesn’t mean he wasn’t a socialist, or liked capitalism.

In other words, what happened when they tried to establish the Utopia called "Communism".

Orwell was fond of anarchists and said he would have preferred to fight with them rather than the Trotskyists. You think Soviet communism and anarcho-syndicalism are the same. Not even close.

Of course not. Soviet "communism" is what follows an attempt to establish communism.

Fascism is what followed in Spain, actually. They lost the War.

Oh, I see you want to cherry-pick your own comments, just like you try to cherry-pick history.

What can one expect from somebody who states this on their profile: "I have a burning hatred for reactionary conservatism. The right is moronic."

Hate appears to be his reason to get up in the morning.

No. You need time. Remove obstacles and allow the process to work instead of demanding that everything be "fixed" yesterday. Inequal processes create resentment and are counter-productive.

Our systems were built by slave owners designed to protect elitism and patriarchal racism, what “process” am I supposed to allow work? LOL

Our systems were built to grow food and allow people to prosper. There was no intent to "protect elitism and patriarchal racism." Those things did happen, however. There is no magic wand or any way to instantly correct the injustices that occurred without creating more injustice. It takes time. Decades, maybe even a century. Attitudes and beliefs are changing, and with those changes we move more and more towards a diverse society with equal opportunity. You cannot rush it. You are living in a world that MLK fought to achieve.

Oh, I am? So we’re drawing even larger protests against police violence against black people than in the 1960s because we’re living Dr. King’s dream? The first police department was a slave patrol. The job of the police was always to catch slaves and to break up striking workers. That is elitism and racism at its finest.

We are not going to see any significant moves toward equality, end to poverty or economic or social justice without ending capitalism too. King was beginning to realize that.

Despite what you might think, conditions today are far better, our society far advanced over what existed in the 1960s.

I don't deny that, but when being killed by the police is the sixth leading cause of death in young U.S. black men, it cannot be denied that not enough has been done.

Certainly there is work to be done. There is a lot that needs to change. It will not change overnight, and Georgia's guaranteed income program and programs like affirmative action do not prevent deaths of young African American men at the hands of police. Let the racists die out, and don't create programs that inspire new ones to take their place.

The "process" known as "Affirmative Action" has been in place for half a century.

It hasn't worked yet. It never will.

The most important lesson in politics is, Utopia is not an option.

This is what I mean by counterproductive. AA creates resentment which just starts another circuit on the big wheel of racism and injustice.

It’s why I’m NOT a reformist liberal. You cannot reform oppressive institutions and expect a different result. They need to be abolished, along with elite privileges, and people need to have an equal relationship to society’s mode of production, and a voice in direct democracy.

Neither can you repeat an experiment with a flawed system and get a different result than they did every time they tried communism.

Since you are so fond of Orwell, let’s see what he thought of the communism in Spain accomplished by the anarchists:

“Up here in Aragon one was among tens of thousands of people, mainly though not entirely of working-class origin, all living at the same level and mingling on terms of equality. In theory it was perfect equality, and even in practice it was not far from it. There is a sense in which it would be true to say that one was experiencing a foretaste of Socialism, by which I mean that the prevailing mental atmosphere was that of Socialism. Many of the normal motives of civilized life — snobbishness, money-grubbing, fear of the boss, etc. — had simply ceased to exist. The ordinary class-division of society had disappeared to an extent that is almost unthinkable in the money — tainted air of England; there was no one there except the peasants and ourselves, and no one owned anyone else as his master.”

So basically everybody was equally poor?

Yep, sounds like communism.

Spain was incredibly poor before the revolution (typically why socialist revolutions happen to begin with). Nothing about that quote suggests they were living poorly. They were better off.

Sounds to me like capitalist England was better off... And stayed better off!

In my opinion structural racism exists - it was established by the Pilgrims, who treated newcomers the way they were treated by the countries they left. That means that structural racism is not unique to African Americans. Chinese, Italians, Irish, Polish, almost every group has experienced it. Acknowledging this would allow us all to escape the ridiculous and detrimental Victim-Villain dynamic that we seem to continually cycle through every 30 years or so, and make actual progress toward a reality where we're not talking about racism because there isn't any.

Well said, Prime.

Keep her legs together until she has a ring. Have kids after marriage. It’s dimple.