Social class, capitalism and the murder of George Floyd

[wsws.org]

[It is the mass experience of millions of youth and ordinary working people with the brutal American reality that underlies the explosive response to Floyd’s final agony.]

[It is worth reviewing the different stages of the ruling class’s response to the killing.]

[More than ten thousand were arrested—most for violating curfews set by Democratic mayors—]

Setting curfews was a means to legally quell legal protesting.

[In this unstable situation, the Democratic Party, mainstream media and large corporations have shifted gears to the co-optation stage, seeking to reframe the issues that motivated young people and workers to turn to the streets in a manner that is more suitable to the ruling class. The role that racism plays in police violence has been amplified to drown out all other social issues.]

In other words. They have managed to reduce this new situation to now be the same as the old one's. Including the lame efforts of BLM as they fall towards the one corrupt party for support which both parties play the same role in.

[Left out in all the commentary in the mainstream media and from the political establishment is any reference to the reality that underlies both the brutality of the police and the massive eruption of popular protests.]

Which highly relates to my question at the beginning of the week. I will address this this weekend.

[Instead, there are once again calls for empty reforms, which have been heard repeatedly over the last 50 years.]

Lets take the choke hold for example. Already illegal and highly discussed in Minnesota in the past, didn't help Mr. Floyd much. Here we go again though. And again it will go in the future with another choke technic. Tear gas anyone? Supposdely a war time crime? What's going on on our streets?

[The aim of the Democrats and their adjuncts in the media, the pseudo-left and academia is to chloroform public opinion with platitudes about confronting “white fragility” and ensure that the relationship of police violence to the broader social and economic system is not raised in any significant manner. The purpose of the sophistic arguments developed by middle-class academics and now deployed by the Democrats is to absolve the capitalist system of any fault and present police violence as the outcome of an irredeemably racist society—embodied in particular in white workers.]

A segment of America's Lawyer [RT] covered this this week which I watched last night. I'll post it this weekend as the entire episode was interesting.

[Testifying before Congress yesterday, Philonise Floyd, George Floyd’s brother, eloquently called attention to the united and international movement that has emerged in the wake of his death: “George called for help and he was ignored. Please listen to the call I’m making to you now, to the calls of our family, and the calls ringing out in the streets across the world. People of all backgrounds, genders and races have come together to demand change.”]

!That's a hint! But who the fuck am I? No one listens to my dumb ass.