I decided to not be bitter and i followed a liberal influencer for like a week (they dont make political content usually) but today they posted that BULLSHIT about how trump is causing wars as a cover for the files and i had to unfollow. nobody is starting wars over that, theyre starting wars for capital and resources.
what the fuck is a ”eipstein class”? just those guys on the files? are the billionaires who refused or were not invited alright with you?
and of course the religious zealots doing the bit about how eipstein was satan incarnate while churning out money for their pastor to buy a new mansion.
the prolecattleiat is not being elevated to sapience by this situation alone. people have to read theory which is why i encourage them to do so. libs, anarchists and conservatives have the balls to talk about how mao, stalin and other leaders were also pedophiles or ray peests so communism is not worth it either so we just need a matriarchy as if a capitalist system would be fine if women were in charge.
So rather than consider that westerners are acting in their self interests as beneficiaries of imperialism, and that material conditions affects what self-filtering occurs, we should instead double down on the idealistic notion that we should appeal to those who would benefit more from what the imperialist state than anything an actual anti-imperialist movement can offer them.
So for example in the US, instead of working with say original nation movements and the New Afrikan movements to better the US ML line we should focus on the settler nation folks by appealing to their empathetic sensibilities, which has so far failed for the past few centuries and no analysis about how to go about it differently that isn’t much more than trade unionism and protest marches.
Fuck that White Noise. Being a westerner is a fucking disease.
Me: repeatedly points out that the situation in the US is more complicated than just white people
You: so you’re saying we should work exclusively with white people?
I don’t have any patience for this any more. I don’t even know who you are arguing with.
Didn’t you hear? Intersectionality is when you work only with white people. They’re already so diverse as is! Who needs any other group?
Also all Westerners are white, and there is absolutely no nuance to that statement. Now, let me get back to planning my revolution with my vanguard party consisting of three guys and a dog we adopted.
Yeah, this whole thing has been baffling. Like you explicitly pointed out diversity in your experiences organizing with PSL, IIRC? In this very thread in response to darkernations? Isn’t that a point of evidence toward the idea that not all western organizing is languishing in targeting white people?
I mean, I honestly don’t know what some people want. Do they want white westerners to go hit up indigenous nations and the black prison population exclusively for revolutionary organizing? Or are the white westerners supposed to sit on the sidelines because they’re too tainted to organize in the first place? (In which case, they’d then get criticized for letting non-white people do the sacrifice to change the world.) I never understand quite what the goal is. I get the settler issue matters, as does race, but I can remember two distinct times on here, this thread and another user/thread a while back, where in both cases the position was very strong about who to organize with and in both cases, I never got a clear answer on the logistics of actually doing it.