EDIT: i now see the glaring problem with this thread- it assumes proletarians (white ones especially) are mostly reactionary and won't advocate for their own class interests. further, he only addresses two types of americans, the radlib and the white reactionary. this thread is almost entirely unhelpful to people on this site who are in neither category and consistently fight back against libs and reactionaries alike.
also the term "synthetic left" was coined by calep maupin, a patsoc and genuinely revolting person
a better tweet than this would have been "radlibs appropriate the struggles of marginalized people to distract from the struggle of the working class, but the material conditions of the working class are affected by structures like racism, sexism, transphobia, homophobia, etc. 1/2" "Therefore a mass communist movement must focus on improving the material conditions of the lower classes, but especially to those most oppressed under capitalism"
this was quite the struggle session
Thank you to everyone who shared their input, you guys are the best :soviet-heart: communism will win, love you all
PS read some Mao
It is. This Xiangyu guy is jumping at shadows to make a thinly-veiled attack at racial and LGBTQ+ justice work.
it smells slightly like a "actually this stuff is leftists fault" which never sits right with me because what are you expecting from teenagers in the imperial core?
To me it just reads like stupidpol shit. Someone so desperate to escape the liberal co-opting of emancipatory movements that they end up tossing base/superstructure theory out the window and start thinking oppression based om race, gender, disability, etc. somehow exists separately from class.