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because the woke left shift was a result of the 80s and 90s left failing so horribly. now because the current left has burnt through hundreds of millions only to stall out the process is happening again. the dirtbag left was always mostly white so this is how the shift appears in them, but the broader rejection crosses identity lines since it is driven by the fact people need things like healthcare and the existing left is too corrupt and alienating to make progress toward providing it.
it is not so much class reductionism as the left needing to realize there are consequences to failure and you can’t stay in the build up stage indefinitely. self sabotaging political campaigns, aimless organizational strategy, millions of dollars being tossed down a hole, etc. this is how the status quo has failed to justify itself. this is why that status quo is being abandoned.
I mean the left isn’t really helpless here for once. It would only take a couple of the left’s people in the House to publicly say they are not going to pass any of Biden’s legislation unless he stops supporting this. If they refuse to block Biden in the house the left orgs like the DSA could publicly withdraw their endorsements of the squad. There isn’t really much need to bother with the superficial stuff when the left has a power play on the table if it really cares about any of this beyond a branding level.
I’m saying there is an actual real option here beyond just shouting at the injustice in the world. You have people who can cause meaningful harm to the president’s agenda. You also have orgs who’s denouncements would cause meaningful harm to the fundraising and reputations of the people with that power. If organizing isn’t to exploit opportunity like this then what is it for?
I guess I just don’t really get why there should be any resistance to do this when the whole point of BDS or organizing is to eventually put us in this exact position. We got lucky with the House margins and if we don’t do this now there are no opportunities in the foreseeable future.
If someone ignored the posturing and looked at what the left in the US actually does it is a reasonable takeaway. Over 80% of self identified leftist voted for Obama, Hilary and Biden. The representatives the left elects overwhelming vote in line with Obama, Hillary and Biden’s wing of the party, especially on foreign policy.
In the primaries Pete and Warren were able to split the Bernie vote explicitly because the American left is like this. Otherwise their hawkishness would’ve been disqualifying. Otherwise Biden would have had adjust his foreign policy to bring in the left after the primaries were over.
This is what it’s referring to when someone says how exploitative and ghoulish the left can be on Palestine. The responsibilities for defending Palestine are largely falling on Hamas with both China and left representatives in the US condemning the actual defense effort while arguing over who has the best PR campaign.
I don’t really think there are. The jobs data for most countries says a lot of the poorest are among the millions who fall out of the workforce entirely for long periods of time due to whatever reason. A lot of them are still workers by the marxist definition, fulfilling different functions to subsist in a sort of grey area outside the normal jobs market. The people in this category are usually worse off than the people who’ve had regular employment since they were teens. Think Brace or Christman if the pod never took off.
There’s also the whole thing where Lucas auditioned Glynn Turnman for Han Solo and then didn’t cast him because he wanted to avoid having an interracial relationship in the movie. Or how one of the original designs for Jabba was an orientalist caricature complete with a fu manchu.
He also phrases it like the Saudis just up and went to war independently. The US sent troops to Yemen to fight along with the Saudis. This is not like an obscure conspiracy theory, the NYT reported on the Green Berets being sent to Yemen to help in the ground war. On top of that was the air and logistics support the US openly admits to.
The war in Yemen is literally a joint project that involves Saudis, Israelis, and Americans among others. There is no crime one is responsible for and the others are innocent of.