“I loved hearing from workers that they agree that workers in this country have the same fundamental interests as workers around the world. That kind of thinking completely challenges the whole capitalist order and the division of workers by nationality.”
The key to EVERYTHING socialists stand for : international working class solidarity - long forgotten by " patriotic " Democrats and zealots for Apartheid Israel. A loathsome phrase for plutocrat ears everywhere .
" Identity politics " deceives individuals that voting for " progressive " Democrats with any assigned identity ( like " gay " , " female ", " Latino " ) but a CLASS identity is the way to come up in the world of petty-bourgeois " success .
How many blacks or Latinos or gay people can free themselves from working class economic status by the magic of DNC based " identity politics " ?
Can the capitalist system set up " affirmative action " for gay homeless people, gay jobless people, homeless Latinos, jobless Latinos , homeless females , jobless females ? What can bourgeois feminism do for working class women ?
Being working class , poor , and oppressed in capitalist America is a very GENERIC fate . The oldest trick in the world is called upon to save the American ruling class : DIVIDE AND CONQUER .
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