Representation itself can be a site of life and death in struggles like AIDS

Evidence

It takes as a first premise that for a people to survive in struggle it must be on its own terms: the collective wisdom which is a synthesis of culture and the experience of that struggle. The shared past is precious, not for itself, but because it is the basis of consciousness, of knowing, of being. It cannot be traded in exchange for expedient alliances or traduced by convenient abstractions or dogma. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 106 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Representation and textuality can literally determine life and death, not merely shape discourse; Representation itself determines who is acknowledged as dying and how; A people’s survival in struggle depends on its own cultural terms, not borrowed abstractions — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 106 (+1 more)

Related

• Representation and textuality can literally determine life and death, not merely shape discourse (similarity 0.81)
• Representation itself is a site where lives, desire, and politics are won or lost (similarity 0.80)
• Socialist meaning must be won through struggle (similarity 0.80)
• A people’s survival in struggle depends on its own cultural terms, not borrowed abstractions (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• A people’s survival in struggle depends on its own cultural terms, not borrowed abstractions #expands (0.65) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 106