To be clear, I'm not urging another "read theory" struggle session. This to me seems to be about posting. Or maybe not? I guess we could have a struggle session about what it's actually about instead. And to prove I'm not one of the elite liberals, here's the link
I'd be pretty upset at anyone using the phrase "Intersectional Identity Politics" while organizing.
A socialist organization in my city has been handing out tenant organizing flyers. I ran the text through a reading level calculator. It was written at an upper-graduate level.
Two-thirds of my city is functionally illiterate.
Yeah this is a big problem, a lot of the people who intersectional, very academic woke and generally decent leftists want to help actually cannot or are not interested in parsing a lot of the language used to address issues. Getting down to the basics (healthcare, jobs, end racism, etc) is much more effective than saying "the institutional and political crisis that has arisen from an excessively punitive criminal justice system which does not adequately meet the needs of BIPOC and Latinx people and forces them to suffer at the hands of a white-supremacist-associated police force with a penchant for brutality, murder, and oppression needs to end"
Instead of that you could literally just say "defund the police and put that money towards jobs and food" and it would be 100% more successful. And it has if you look at the support behind diverting cop money to other shit in places where that's been the main message
Unless you're trying to write the next great novel or deliver a stirring speech, short sentences and ordinary words are the way to go.
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