Imagine telling a Muslim person after 9/11 or a visible trans person that their real enemy are only the “bourgeoisie”, just this class of faceless entities they’ve never met and not the everyday proles that constantly treat them like shit

And that the proles are actually only massive assholes to them because they’re “misguided” by “the ruling class”

No wonder socialist groups are all filled with middle-upper middle class white coastal elites

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    I’d argue the majority of Black/POC Americans are latent socialists

    While white Americans take up the lions share of explicit socialists

    The reasons are purely demographic and the result of state anti-communtist suppression disproportionately targeting explicit POC socialists, and there are simply more white people, so the explicit socialists amongst them tend to make up the majority of any socialist grouping

    Which triggers the social reality of de facto self-segregation (85% of white Americans do not associate in anyway, shape or form with non-white peoples) a white person joins an org, 85% of their friends are white and they join etcetera, that cascades across demographic cohorts and since they’re a majority most spaces get hit with the white ray gun

    Then there’s the added danger of being an explicit POC socialist, white socialists may receive a “race traitor” asterisk on their whiteness card and be vulnerable to state repression

    But POC socialists are far more likely to end up in the back of a trunk with bullet holes in it or in prison over trumped up charges, there’s simply no room for error

    Demographics, segregation and self preservation are powerful barriers

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    I’m confused by your point

    POC and marginalized groups, as much as they are distinct, usually are mostly working class people on average, and while I can’t speak for marginalized groups like those with disabilities, of lower caste, or of gender identities, I can say for sure EM POC (Global South) have usually been ones at the forefront of the international revolutionary socialist movement.

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    Are you that trans social media engineer still trying to process your shame of outgrowing socialism when you started making $100k through chapo.chat posts about coastal elites?

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      I was making 100k+ for over 8 years now, and I was the most radicalized and doing the most activism when I was at my peak wealth before I lost most of it in a gambling addiction

      I’m sorry but my enemies are both the ruling and the working class. And my best bet for survival and a good life is becoming a capitalist rather than any solidarity with the working class that at large treat me as lesser than just because of my identity

      I didn’t “outgrow” socialism, I just smartened up to where my class interests truly lie (shared identity with trans people and capital)