Here in the UK several communist parties frequently think they need to pander to chuds and reactionaries as a means of getting them to support communism. They see the working class as a caricature of a man in a pub drinking beer shouting "ennnnnnglan'" and spewing endless amounts of obscenities. As such when they see the negative reaction from the working class reactionaries it tends to move the party rightwards to try and appeal to them. This is why terfism has been pandered to among the UK communist parties, among other things like anti-migrant sentiments.
I see the same thing happening here. Communists trying to appeal to reactionaries move their party rightwards and throw minority groups under the bus while doing it.
What is the result? Does it cause some of these working class reactionaries to like the communists and start being leftists? No, practically never. What it does instead is reinforce their reactionary views, reinforcing their rightist tendencies. When communists move right to try to appeal to these people, everything moves right.
It is a behaviour that I believe we desperately need to criticise in the european left and attempt to stop.
The same way we stop a lot of other mistakes occurring in the left. Articles, propaganda, content, being loud and complain-ey about it for long enough until that thing propagates throughout the left and is repeated over and over by others. Everyone here knows that they've been directly influenced by an article they've read, or a comment they've seen or a meme that has stuck with them at one point or another. This influence is carried by these people into the parties, and they repeat those things that influenced them among people that may not have seen them.
It's not quick. But it happens if everyone agrees to repeat that shit often enough, to write about it, to criticise it and to push it.
If what you mean is whether there is a non-idealist way I'm not sure. This seems to be the kind of thing that can only be changed with words.
Here in the UK several communist parties frequently think they need to pander to chuds and reactionaries as a means of getting them to support communism. They see the working class as a caricature of a man in a pub drinking beer shouting "ennnnnnglan'" and spewing endless amounts of obscenities. As such when they see the negative reaction from the working class reactionaries it tends to move the party rightwards to try and appeal to them. This is why terfism has been pandered to among the UK communist parties, among other things like anti-migrant sentiments.
I see the same thing happening here. Communists trying to appeal to reactionaries move their party rightwards and throw minority groups under the bus while doing it.
What is the result? Does it cause some of these working class reactionaries to like the communists and start being leftists? No, practically never. What it does instead is reinforce their reactionary views, reinforcing their rightist tendencies. When communists move right to try to appeal to these people, everything moves right.
It is a behaviour that I believe we desperately need to criticise in the european left and attempt to stop.
how would it be stopped, in your opinion?
The same way we stop a lot of other mistakes occurring in the left. Articles, propaganda, content, being loud and complain-ey about it for long enough until that thing propagates throughout the left and is repeated over and over by others. Everyone here knows that they've been directly influenced by an article they've read, or a comment they've seen or a meme that has stuck with them at one point or another. This influence is carried by these people into the parties, and they repeat those things that influenced them among people that may not have seen them.
It's not quick. But it happens if everyone agrees to repeat that shit often enough, to write about it, to criticise it and to push it.
If what you mean is whether there is a non-idealist way I'm not sure. This seems to be the kind of thing that can only be changed with words.
Words can be praxis?