I'm glad it's thought that someone can be privileged yet still have problems…I just read some Bright Young Thing's bullet-proof argument that an N.F.L. has no right to protest 'because he's rich'.
We ought to avoid the 'vulgar Marxism' that equates poverty with virtue and wealth with evil, not least because oppression is a guarantor neither of wisdom nor of probity—for example, the poor often misidentify their more distant oppressors.
We ought to avoid the 'vulgar Marxism' that equates poverty with virtue and wealth with evil, not least because oppression is a guarantor neither of wisdom nor of probity—for example, the poor often misidentify their more distant oppressors.