Interview with Dr. Robert Weide, Author of Divide & Conquer:  Race, Gangs, Identity, and Conflict

Excerpts from Interview of Dr. Robert Weide:

“I don’t buy the line that it’s impossible for resistance to succeed… it is impossible for it to happen in a system where everyone is divided according to identities …  Universities don’t exist to challenge the interests of oligarchy. They exist to advance the interests of oligarchy. They design the bombs that oligarchs drop on people around the world.  They design the prisons they lock people into, and more importantly, they proliferate the theoretical frameworks that make oligarchs’ lives possible. “

 “There is a political problem with a large unemployed population that has nothing to lose, who have no real stake in the system, and no avenue for advancement.  This is a population that has revolutionary potential that could potentially rise up against the system and attack the people who control the corporations that benefit from the system.  There is an interest in deliberately turning people against each other and encouraging movements and organizations that are not going to accomplish anything of substance.”