翔宇歸來 Xiangyu Returns (@XYreturns)
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🧵 Synthetic Leftism vs. American Conservatism 1. Synthetic leftism is the false messiah for those rightfully resentful of the way things are. It is the product of cultural programs spearheaded by the CIA, for Ford Foundation, and other similar organizations, with one simple aim

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

  • AssortedBiscuits [they/them]
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    3 years ago

    Kinda weird how people are accusing Xiangyu of being a tailist when he's most emphatically not one and a class reductionist even though he constantly rails against Sinophobia.

    I think the problem for Xiangyu's general analysis, not just this thread but in general, is he overly focuses on radlib types and doesn't understand that mask-off reactionaries and faux-progressive radlibs are in a dialectical relationship with one another. In other words, his analysis tends to be one-sided and thus ultimately incomplete.

    This is especially evident when some of those reactionaries adopt a faux-anti-imperialist stance like Tucker Carlson. So you have faux-progressive radlibs on one side and faux-anti-imperialists on the other side, two wings of the same bird shitting all over humanity from above. This is how you get people who are otherwise good allies towards LGBT putting up Ukrainian flags in their Twitter while people who are otherwise good anti-imperialists like the Grey Zone sucked into advocating for anti-vax reactionary bullshit.

    All leftist should strive for progressive social politics and anti-imperialism. As a form of counterinsurgency, the two political parties each adopt one of the two aspect and a fake version of the aspect at that. The Democrats are faux-progressive imperialists while the Republicans are faux-anti-imperialist reactionaries. This split means a truly sincere leftist movement has to struggle against not being co-opted by both parties.