No reactionaries please

    • happybadger [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Class reductionists usually argue that we would have won over the conservative white working class if only we didn’t advocate for the better treatment of this without that minority group.

      It's such dumb guy logic. When there isn't a greater sense of intersectionality and you just have white supremacism with redistributive policies, your ability to organise is limited not only to white males but to the white male socialists who aren't critical of whiteness or masculinity. Those things are the enemy tied to different forms of spectacle. Strip away the spectacle and you just go back to striking miners and factory workers being replaced by minorities even within the category of white people. A major limiting factor of CPUSA was its white chauvinism and a major limiting factor of the black panthers was a lack of support from whites for the only group that really got shit done with discipline in the 1960s.

      If crackerjack is so deeply reactionary that he sees BLM as a threat, what value does he have when the revolution is over and he's suddenly on equal footing with those groups? I don't want to stand next to Kyle Rittenhouse when he's armed or give him power in a society which is supposed to be the antithesis of the things he represents.

    • bark [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      A charitable interpretation would be that they believe you can solve everything by solving class issues.