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  • Then there is nothing that I can tell you which you don’t already know about the people you’re involved with or the task of communists in your country. The weaponization of “identity politics” is used by chauvinists who call themselves marxists to reduce marxism into a reformist battle rather than a truly liberationist one. That being said, the struggle looks different in different places. The needs of the moment are dependent on your material reality. I can’t tell you what to do because I don’t live where you do. I can just tell you that with the dominance of westerners on the english speaking side of the internet, you can not assume that even if they have the correct line for their conditions (and most do not), that you can simply copy amd paste this on to your own conditions.


  • Your english is fine. You’re correct to identify this as a problem, and people like this, far from being allies, are social fascists and the enemies of communism. I am immediately wary of anyone that talks about “identity politics”. What this really reveals is the class interest of these so-called socialists, that they expect the question of liberation for minorities to be left to the future. This is a perspective I can understand within a national liberation movement, as the contradictions of imperialism weigh more on the nationally oppressed than the contradictions within the national liberation movement itself. That being said, it doesn’t sound like you’re involved in a national liberation movement, but perhaps a first world “working class” one.


  • Intersectionality is a liberal feminist concept to be sure, but this correction in a direction opposed to “identity politics” is embarrassingly bad as well. It is important to recognize the ways in which oppression acts along multiple axes, but both these tendencies make the same mistake, that is, thinking that class is an axis which is distinct from the others. Rather, these other axes are component pieces of what we understand as class. It is absolutely crucial to investigate a message based on its contents rather than who it is coming from. However, the message from many “leftists” so often boils down to trying to convince oppressed minorities to ignore their oppression and ally with people who only promise that this oppression will be dealt with in the future. Obviously this ignores the opportunist history of the white “left” like the multiple betrayals of the Black working class by the white American working class.

    The line is simple: a correct message is correct regardless of who is delivering it. However, a person delivering a message is not a neutral entity, and their identity plays into the message that they are likely to deliver. So yes, while we shouldn’t assume that all members of an oppressed minority group are correct by merely being part of that group, neither should we assume that the answer to this is to form some imaginary class alliance which will immediately sell out the struggles of their minority groups once their own reformist needs are met.