It turns out that there is a type of Leftist that is fed up with what the American political Left has become. They are called anti-woke Leftists. They strike me as old-line Marxists, though I do not mean they are old people. Meet the anti-woke left, who make more sense than every 2020 Democrat candidate combined.
The left is in crisis across the West. It is out of power in most countries and out of touch with its historical working-class base. Class politics has given way to identity politics. And noble causes like anti-racism, anti-sexism and anti-discrimination have congealed into a stifling morass of political correctness and competitive victimhood.Read the whole thing, very interesting., especially when they observe that social media's "call-out culture has no Marxist explanation." After all, the solidarity of the Masses is vaporware when social media by its nature, and identitarian politics by design, keep carving the Masses into smaller and more tightly-defined tribal groups.
Thankfully, there are some pockets on the left who recognise this predicament. I’m in New York to try to understand the thinking behind the ‘dirtbag left’. The phrase was coined by Amber A’Lee Frost, a writer, commentator and activist, to describe a loose constellation of American leftists who reject the civility, piety and PC that has come to characterise much of the left. ...
... identitarian divisions based on gender, race and sexuality are ‘a distraction at best, an active detriment at worst’. ‘The biggest divide in American society is class and that’s it. I’m a class-first person’, she tells me.
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