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https://medium.com/@petersoeller/the-rightwing-of-the-dsa-left-5fd38f265367
https://medium.com/@petersoeller/deplorables-for-bernie-part-ii-de1f5799831c
https://medium.com/@tamaravelasquez...-no-its-not-what-you-think-it-is-cd26675eee5d
So a friend of mine posted this to my discord and I don't agree with all the points made unreservedly, but I thought it a pretty good subject to discuss. This is one of the things I'm seeing in a lot of spaces full of people being opened up to Leftist ideas is the infusion of people who appropriate the arguments of nativist reactionaries thinking it can lead to anything but reactionary attitudes. This is worrying to me as I find generally it's the most oppressed classes whom real socialism and communism most often appeals to. I find people who are on the out with society as it exists now are the most susceptible to radicalization, both left- and right-wing. There's a reason why every trans woman being a member of the Maoist Red Guard or an Anarchist Bomb Thrower have become a meme inside the trans community.
This isn't to say Left-Right radicalization is equivalent, I don't see being radical as bad from outside a liberal framework of thought, I do recognize that all views outside the narrow frame society defines for us is "radical". I do have an issue with for example LibFems and Rainbow Capitalists. I'm more than happy to criticize those and recognize how they ignore the systemic issues of capitalism which makes it impossible to resolve the issues faced by both women and queer people due to the way capitalism incentivizes the marginalization of these as groups, the same holds true of ethnic minorities but I want to leave room for someone with personal experience in this matter to interject their own concerns.
However, I think it's important for us to recognize the inherent danger of many of the "Anti-IDpol" Left and how they very easily slot into a reactionary worldview.
https://medium.com/@petersoeller/deplorables-for-bernie-part-ii-de1f5799831c
https://medium.com/@tamaravelasquez...-no-its-not-what-you-think-it-is-cd26675eee5d
So a friend of mine posted this to my discord and I don't agree with all the points made unreservedly, but I thought it a pretty good subject to discuss. This is one of the things I'm seeing in a lot of spaces full of people being opened up to Leftist ideas is the infusion of people who appropriate the arguments of nativist reactionaries thinking it can lead to anything but reactionary attitudes. This is worrying to me as I find generally it's the most oppressed classes whom real socialism and communism most often appeals to. I find people who are on the out with society as it exists now are the most susceptible to radicalization, both left- and right-wing. There's a reason why every trans woman being a member of the Maoist Red Guard or an Anarchist Bomb Thrower have become a meme inside the trans community.
This isn't to say Left-Right radicalization is equivalent, I don't see being radical as bad from outside a liberal framework of thought, I do recognize that all views outside the narrow frame society defines for us is "radical". I do have an issue with for example LibFems and Rainbow Capitalists. I'm more than happy to criticize those and recognize how they ignore the systemic issues of capitalism which makes it impossible to resolve the issues faced by both women and queer people due to the way capitalism incentivizes the marginalization of these as groups, the same holds true of ethnic minorities but I want to leave room for someone with personal experience in this matter to interject their own concerns.
However, I think it's important for us to recognize the inherent danger of many of the "Anti-IDpol" Left and how they very easily slot into a reactionary worldview.