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

  • SerLava [he/him]M
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    2 years ago

    This got reported, but I'm leaving this up cause it seems like you came around.

    Capitalism benefits from and encourages racism etc, but bigotry is a religion for a lot of people, sometimes literally, and meeting peoples' material needs will only make fighting it a a little easier.

    • ZoomeristLeninist [they/them, she/her]
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      2 years ago

      thanks! yeah, not surprising that it was reported since i was being pretty obtuse and borderline defending reactionaries

      but this thread really helped me examine my own counter-revolutionary biases. im almost finished reading settlers. learned a lot the past couple weeks thanks to the comrades in this thread