It's easy to say that it feels like a psyop, but the levels of class reductionism - that is to say - the knee-jerk ridicule of intersectional shit or critical race theory stuff feels highly suspect. Like, you can't say white people are nerds (which they are) in a lot of anti-woke left spaces without harsh rebukes, and it seems really suspect to me. Is there a real fash pipeline in our midst? Are class reductionist white people that sensitive and defensive and... well... white to the point that they can't let go of their privilege even in the context of them being left?

  • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
    ·
    4 years ago

    Internationalist leftism emphasizes the importance of solidarity between the working classes of all countries across the globe. Think of all the material and political support given by the USSR, PRC, Cuba, etc to anti-colonial struggles in Africa, as well as to economic development afterwards.

    It's the antithesis of certain strains of Western leftism where people just want Healthcare, more unions, and better pay, but otherwise tow the State Department line about foreign interventions.