It is abundantly clear that intersected capitalism and colonialism will not be overthrown without careful attention to problems of racism and white supremacy, and clarity to solutions that build solidarity and our capacity towards collective resistance. Building on George Cicarello-Mayer’s “Decolonizing Dialectics,” this essay will focus on a dialectic of rupture, and work to explode the contradictions contained in the false unities of “Asian”, “Indigenous,” and “Listen to Black/XXXX Leadership.”

Everyone in Portland wants change. The kind of change they want and the effort they’re willing to put in largely depends on their class and their relations to other classes. While many people are working hard to bring about change in Portland, we lack a comprehensive class analysis of the city. By gathering together far-flung institutional knowledge and filling in gaps with original research and on-the-ground mass work, we can synthesize a class analysis of Portland from which can follow a political program that best represents the working people.