White leftists have a history of using class reductionism to ignore racism and even of making common cause with white supremacy itself.

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/352004

When I drag white ‘leftists’ for for having the nerve to “we don’t have a race problem, we just have a class problem”, I’m dragging them because this shit goes back as far as O’hare and Debs.

Yes. Our nation does have a race problem, and it’s just as big as the class problem.

  • comrade_madoff
    7•2 years ago

    Shit even I learned that from Zinn in The People’s History of the United States. Hopefully more of my fellow white socialists start reading leftist theory from POC from around the world. Hell how many people here know that in the grave next to Marx in London is another grave of a comrade, Claudia Jones. Unfortunately she also had to deal with white socialist bullshit, but she she was placed next to Marx, and I think that’s special. There’s a great biography on her called “Left of Marx” if interested. The book kinda all over the place but it was interesting.