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
Point 9 is really good when expanded further than "muh left wants to kill the nuclear family". You see it a ton amongst intellectuals, rad libs, "woke" people desperate for the hottest "takes", that aren't really that woke in reality and end up going full circle and saying shit that's unironically more racist and bigoted than mainstream conservative talking points. And alienates most "normal" people that are oppressed. I'd rather be called a slur than read that straight up fake progressive dehumanizing bs certain "intellectuals" spout.
Point 3 though is just ignoring that in many countries with a colonial history, both internally and externally, race is so intertwined with class that it essentially becomes a much bigger divide than class division. South Africa for instance is unfortunately a good example, the percentage of white people that live in poverty is basically nonexistent when compared to the percentage of black people in poverty. There basically is no "white working class" here, aside from a few thousand people.
thank you for being constructive. yeah, this post has caused me a lot of anxiety today bc i think a lot of people took the thread to mean that things like race, gender, sexuality, etc. don't matter but that wasn't my point at all (or the point of xiangyu as far as i can tell). of course racism is a huge issue in the west. of course there is no room for racism in communist movements. but instead of viewing working class conservatives as evil badthinkers, we should recognize that their reactionary views are a direct result of propaganda and they can be propagandized in the other direction
Yeah I think in a South African context, point 3 is really good when applied to things like tribalism and xenophobia.
Unfortunately it is very easy for things to be misunderstood and I think a lot of Americans are burnt out because they've seen some "Marxists" in the USA say similar things and then turn reactionary. I'm not American though so I'm guessing though things I've seen on here.