Why does Kamala Harris keep repeating this quote? (manifesto style)

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CHRIS WILLIAMSON
https://youtu.be/hDX5q30V_-E

VIDEO EXCERPTS: Can you please try and explain to me how you interpret: "What can be unburdened by what has been". What does that mean?

I don't know if I should. There's a line in Marx where sometimes you hear certain phrases like "a world to win". AOC uses the phrase. We "have a world to win", which comes from the end of the Communist Manifesto.

[...] It basically says you have to wipe out what has been to arrive in the new. And where's it from what can be unburdened by what has been. [...] It's not a direct translation, but it occurs in Karl Marx.

[...] If you think about what Mao had to do to wipe out Chinese history, what Pol Pot had had to do... You're trying to wipe out memory, because the memory has all of this burden.

Why is it important to go after doctors and lawyers and teachers and professors? Because in some sense, they are going to resist the New Order that you're about to impose. You're looking for a blank slate, they like a tether to the past.
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NOTE: The derivation is that, but what this actually highlights is that the critical theory politics of today is intellectually descended from Marxism, with Antonio Gramsci as one of transitional mediators of the past broadening it from the original class struggle between bourgeoisie and proletariat to battling other power structures. Like the "racist/sexist/etc hegemony" that's supposedly oppressing marginalized population groups. The historical inspiration is communist (ergo the quotes), but the creature has been refined and modified since the 1950s to accommodate progressive and social democrat consumption.

Why does Kamala Harris keep repeating this quote? (Eric Weinstein)

https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/hDX5q30V_-E

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Being a mixed race Black and south Asian female in a world dominated by misogynistic white males, KH has a problem - she's a mixed race Black and south Asian female. Momma Harris would have seen the tail end of Jim Crow Law .. on the streets if not in the courts. What chance does her beautiful, intelligent daughter stand in the America of the 1960s, 1970s ..... 2000s, 2010S? In 2024 we're seeing what can be .. unburdened by the past - a mixed race Black and south Asian female running for President of the United States of America. Sometimes Momma knows best.

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Seems Trump has his own pet phrase of sinister precedent:

"Former President Trump has repeatedly said undocumented immigrants are "poisoning the blood of our country," language echoing the rhetoric of white supremacists and Adolf Hitler.

Why it matters: The phrase "poisoning the blood of our country" has a deep racist and antisemitic history, and the comments come as some Republicans have openly endorsed the once-fringe and racist "white replacement theory."

At least four times in recent months, Trump referred to immigrants as "poisoning the blood" of the nation.

He said it during an interview with a right-leaning website in September.
He said it again at a rally in December in New Hampshire.
He repeated it in a Truth Social post in December, then again at a campaign stop in Iowa.

Trump also claimed, with no evidence, that the migrants were terrorists or from mental institutions and cited Asia and Africa as places from where they are "pouring in."

In response to the comments, fellow Republicans so far have offered tepid disagreement or even openly endorsed the Nazi-era rhetoric, Axios Sneak Peek author Zachary Basu reports.

Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) called Trump's comments "objectively and obviously true to anybody who looks at the statistics about fentanyl statistics" — and slammed comparisons to Hitler as "preposterous."

Reality check: The remarks "poisoning the blood of our country" are straight out of Hitler's 1925 autobiographical manifesto, "Mein Kampf" — his blueprint for a "pure Aryan" Germany and the removal of Jews.

"All great cultures of the past perished only because the originally creative race died out from blood poisoning," Hitler wrote.

"He poisons the blood of others but preserves his own blood unadulterated," Hitler wrote of Jewish males allowing Jewish females to marry white Christians.

"Whenever Aryans have mingled their blood with that of an inferior race, the result has been the downfall of the people who were the standard-bearers of a higher culture," he wrote in another passage.

Flashback: Hitler ruled Germany under a dictatorship between 1933 until his suicide in 1945. He sparked World War II and was responsible for the death of at least 6 million Jews and other religious and racial minorities.

Trump said he's never read "Mein Kampf" and was not quoting the German dictator when talking about undocumented immigrants.

But the "whole notion of blood and soil is taken directly from Hitler's attempts to connect his bigotry outside of the major metropolitan areas into the farmlands. Period," Brian Levin, the former director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism, tells Axios."---
https://www.axios.com/2023/12/30/trump-p...ood-racism