To avoid being mistaken for such a sellout, I chose my friends carefully: the more politically active black students, the foreign students, the Chicanos, the Marxist professors and structural feminists, and punk rock performance poets. We smoked cigarettes and wore leather jackets. At night in the dorms, we discussed neocolonialism, Frantz Fanon, Euro-centrism, and patriarchy. When we ground out our cigarettes in the hallway carpet, or set our stereos so loud that the walls began to shake, we were resisting Bourgeois society’s stifling constraints. We weren’t indifferent or careless or insecure. We were alienated.
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Anonymous2010-05-27 5:01
He openly admits marxist, feminist and politically active racial groups (who should of only been mention as of a particular race under the 'politically active' banner, because they were racially motivated.) He notes them not only as his acquaintances but ones who he was drawn to.
He did it to be mistaken for a sell out (assumedly to bourgeois euro-centric society) so he says, but he uses "WE" in "we were alienated" it shows that it is his domain, he must connect with these ideologies personally.
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Neither did I. But they do act like >>1 wrote about.
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Anonymous2010-05-27 14:03
>>4
They're only marxist because they think it's edgy.
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Anonymous2010-05-27 14:06
>>6
I figured it's because they cannot find friends anywhere else, so they become friends with Marxists. Kind of like how goths become that way just to make friends.