"Read Settlers" is a meme, but it's also a true meme. You should read it, or read other things about this thesis regarding the white working class in the US (I've heard other Marxists have since improved on Sakai's thesis but I don't know who they are).

White Americans are doubling down on the racism. As white settler colonialism is starting to face just a little bit of opposition (like teaching kids that maybe the US isn't a perfect, God-blessed country), they are losing their minds over the idea of losing even a tiny bit of their privileges. This is still a perfectly material explanation. White folks have enjoyed an incredible level of privilege since the beginning of this country and they will fight viciously to keep all of it.

IMO the bulk of white Americans are a lost cause. Not to say white folks can't be revolutionary (I'm white), but I think we probably should be spending our very limited time and resources on folks outside the imperial core break from western imperialism, and focus on the oppressed within the core. Any white Americans who want to join in are welcome but any concession to white supremacy is unacceptable.

Edit: to clarify, I'm not saying the Dems lost because racism or whatever. I don't care if the Dems win or lose, it doesn't matter. My point is much more about using electoral results and the campaigns that precede them to see where winds are blowing. It seems that "CRT" and fear-mongering about crime (and thus the need to fund even more cops) was a very effective message in appealing to large segments of the population - particularly the white population.

  • ChairmanBao [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    My point is that objectively America is more tolerable of racial difference than it was in 1950. You can improve racial tolerance in order to defend capitalism, thats why it accepted integration in the middle of the cold war.

    I actually think property rights are the primary mechanism (see Mao: primary contradiction), for the justification of anti-communism AND rascism.

    But thats cuz i read :marx-joker:

    not :sakai-no-picture:

    • Dingdangdog [he/him,comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      I think the intolerance probably just slightly changed forms. With integration came a ton of more subtle ways to discriminate. Like it became less socially acceptable to lynch people, but behind closed doors the state kept doing all it could to harm minorities and still does.

      The moment the real "Amerikkka" feels sort of threatened by minority power in the US all the violence will come right back.

      I mean you can see it happening right now. The neo-fascist movement that happened in response to Obama and then BLM is fucking scary and wraps communism, LGBTQ, and all non white people together.

      • Brak [they/them, e/em/eir]
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        3 years ago

        Oh dang howdy, do I ever agree with this. The “AntiFa anarchist thugs” squealing from the hogs only really showed up once the BLM movement started fighting back even more.

    • LoudMuffin [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      My point is that objectively America is more tolerable of racial difference than it was in 1950.

      Only among young people......we're trending backward lately from what I've experienced and seen