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
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