Norman Finkelstein: "Why isn't Angela Davis asking herself: 'why am I getting all these hysterical warm receptions from all of these filthy rich crooks'?"
Finkelstein is just possessed of the kind of blinders old leftists put up where the only path is the one i’m advocating, everything else is a distraction–this is why we invented intersectionalism but ig some dogs were too old to learn that trick
tbh this isn't an old leftist thing. it's pretty common all over the left side of the political spectrum.
yeah, true, but the younger the better acquainted with intersectional axes and less likely to admonish a particular emphasis in someone's praxis (say with race, lgbt+, environmentalism) as "distracting" from socialist aims
i am a nonbinary person who has been told multiple times by "marxists" several years younger than me that trans rights are a bourgeois distraction keeping us from the revolution so idk if that's even true.
tbh this isn't an old leftist thing. it's pretty common all over the left side of the political spectrum.
yeah, true, but the younger the better acquainted with intersectional axes and less likely to admonish a particular emphasis in someone's praxis (say with race, lgbt+, environmentalism) as "distracting" from socialist aims
i am a nonbinary person who has been told multiple times by "marxists" several years younger than me that trans rights are a bourgeois distraction keeping us from the revolution so idk if that's even true.