{"id":180902,"date":"2016-11-29T21:14:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-30T02:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/11\/29\/quote-of-the-day-89\/"},"modified":"2016-11-29T21:14:00","modified_gmt":"2016-11-30T02:14:00","slug":"quote-of-the-day-89","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/11\/29\/quote-of-the-day-89\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">But, if the global Left is to have any meaning in the future of the world, and I would argue that the global Right will destroy us all if it doesn\u2019t, then it must get beyond post-structural paralysis and go back to the future of fighting not just for social justice issues but for equity based upon class. Empowerment is not just about language, it\u2019s about capital, who\u2019s got it, who hasn\u2019t and what role government plays between them.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\"><b><span style=\"font-size: 100%; font-variant: small-caps;\">All sex is not rape, but most poverty is.<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/www.macrobusiness.com.au\/2016\/11\/global-left-destroyed-sex-not-rape\/\">David Llewellyn-Smith<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>(<i>emphasis mine<\/i>)<\/p>\n<p>H\/t <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/2016\/11\/how-the-global-left-destroyed-itself-or-all-sex-is-not-rape.html\">naked capitalism<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But, if the global Left is to have any meaning in the future of the world, and I would argue that the global Right will destroy us all if it doesn\u2019t, then it must get beyond post-structural paralysis and go back to the future of fighting not just for social justice issues but for equity &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[784,898,813,799],"class_list":["post-180902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-good-writing","tag-language","tag-philosophy","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180902"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}