He seems to be one of the most hated figures on the online left. From my view, he does have a lot of questionable takes, but also does bring up some good points when it comes to fighting imperialism from a leftist perspective, so I’d like to know what people in this community think about him.
reactionary inflitrating communist spaces. these people must be rejected.
there is a subset of self-professed socialists for whom the existence of trans people is the primary contradiction and base all of their organizing and association around that principle.
When you hear these people use woke, it only means one thing: A lot of them don’t feel comfortable admitting this yet but it’s basically the cornerstone of the “patsoc” worldview. “We just want to appeal to Americans as they are” is a scapegoat for their own biases.
Far from rejecting idpol, they’re deeply obsessed with it.
Its a great point that the patsoc types are actually entrenched in idpol. IMO its a difficult thing to parse out and properly organize but people like Maupin are overconfident and underinformed at best.
I mean im happy to be critical of Amerikan civil religion, idpol and liberalism and how it chokes out revolutionary processes, but some of the voices involved in this conversation are arrogant and bigoted. “Woke” is often used to only point the finger at “”“left”“”" idpol, but never mentions abortion, patriotism, or heternomativity in their assessment of civil religon.
When this happens I can only assume “woke” is now an anti-Black, anti-queer dogwhistle. They also like to say that Land Back is a corporate scheme to get land for billionaires. They know nothing of the discourse around treaties and they dont give a shit. They disqualify themselves from the conversation yet they gain followers in the process. How convenient for white supremacy. How glorious for capital that Maupin exists and is even supported by people even here.
For anyone out there that supports Maupin and the rot he represents, grow up. We live in perilous times where every single worldview hangs by a thread and clumsily moves along with nothing more than a candle in the dark. We will not be forgiven for listening to snake oil salesman. We will hardly make it out of this even if we listen to the best of us but you do worse than hold us back by holding on to grifters like Maupin or Coffin when we have alternatives like Vijay Prasad, Nick Estes, and others. The natural world thrives on mimicking what you want to hear to lure you in and consume you and it is no different with ideology and propaganda.