Recommend them The Red Pen or Dessalines instead. Western Marxism is better not receiving any traction at all. Fucking dogmatist Piece of shit!

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    I disagree with your POV. Don’t idealize the non-Western working class, because people outside isn’t progressive, revolutionary or extremely class councious. What makes them revolutionary is their material conditions and the work of some existing organizations which are disputing their conscience. For example, the Brazilian mainstream media is more pro-Israel than the US media. If you ask Brazilian people about Muslims, most will associate them with terrorists, and even so we have seen some growing support for pro-Palestinian movements.

    So I completely disagree, you need the same effort of propaganda and agitation work even at the core the empire. The working class is very fragmented, we have very specialized professionals in tech with entrepreneurial views, the office worker who becomes a drag queen at night, the bigoted factory worker, the gig worker that does not have a stable job, and many different others. They all can be revolutionary, conservative or reactionary. Organizing a very heterogeneous class is challenging, but there’s no other way. And while promising revolution is good, most people have immediate needs that need to be addressed. In order to effectively organize you need to keep an eye on the now and on the future, and try the best you can to make both those views converge.

    And keep this in mind, if the existing political work is not producing fruits is not because your workers are inherently bad, but because our existing analysis, strategy or tactics are wrong.

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      Don’t idealize the non-Western working class, because people outside isn’t progressive, revolutionary or extremely class councious.

      I didn’t. You need to consider learning from where organisation has been successful not where it has not. The whole reason I said we need a deep dive statisitical analysis is because of the complexities since workerism and trade unionism isn’t cutting it.

      None of the rest of what you said is what I am saying so I don’t have much else to add. Westerners in the imperial cores have distinct class characteristics against the Global South that needs to be tackled. Brazilian politics overemphasises the non-favelas over the favelas (to generalise) rooted in colorism/anti-indigienous/anti-black politics based on relative class characteristics + their own comprador bourgoisie demographics and own colonialism - the islamophobia is USAmerican politics bled over (as it is the world over).