The deprived must simultaneously critique capitalism and seek entry into it

Evidence

The argument that people who have never had a foot in the house should not knock the father’s mansion as the favored sons do, is not a good argument. It’s like saying, people who have never had the benefits of capitalism should choose capitalism. Everything has to happen at the same time, and the deprived must also undertake and perform the critique of capitalism. — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader, 242

Categorization

• XREF: This simultaneity requirement parallels the strategic essentialism bind — one cannot wait to critique from purity; action happens within the haunted house of power. — connects to: Capitalism co-opts opposition and must be escaped rather than confronted — Andrew deWaard, Derivative Media: How Wall Street…, 468; Liberated capitalist subjects may use their freedom to dismantle capitalism itself; Individual and social liberation must be waged together but not assumed interdependent (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Capitalism co-opts opposition and must be escaped rather than confronted #contradicts (0.90) — Andrew deWaard, Derivative Media, 468
• Liberated capitalist subjects may use their freedom to dismantle capitalism itself #qualifies (0.80)
• Individual and social liberation must be waged together but not assumed interdependent #complicates (0.75)