If Marx and Engels were right that capitalism creates “its own grave-diggers,” then the most revolutionary of these grave-diggers are the colonized people—the women, the children, the minorities, the immigrants, and the people of color.

As protests moved from Minneapolis through cities across the country and world, they gained what could be considered a “transitional power.”

“So we moved here to El Monte, and I remember all the neighbors were white,” recalled Gloria Arellanes […]