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I think a lot of what he had to say was more relevant toward how one should address the black electorate. Whether it's for Bernie, Zohranz or a revolutionary movement, if you want the support of these people, the white left needs to get it's shit together. I think electoral campaigns are good "practice" for doing so.

yes something that (i hope) is implicit in my comment is that these older black voters that are the majority of the black electorate are important in any revolution because they have the most first hand experience of white workers betraying black workers which is something any hopeful revolutionary in the west/the US especially must deal with in its entirety. slight pushback/clarification, i believe white revolutionaries need to learn how to identify which populations are revolutionary and where the most likely betrayals will occur to both try and mitigate those betrayals (i.e. convince as many white workers as possible not to betray for soc dem benefits) and also actually help organize the most populations with the most revolutionary potential (i.e. gain the trust of black workers).

Also, I think you'll enjoy Signifier going head to head with someone to his left here: https://youtu.be/SPOYP8LnwOU

hahaha i bet i would, deculturation is a part of the "decolonial ML" circle of people i used to follow on twitter, thanks for the link comrade!

yes i should say i think of his vids of "good vs bad" through my mindset as a "decolonial ML sympathizer" lol. his bad vids are all mostly b side channel stuff like this where he wades into more explicit political stuff that i think exposes his lack of serious study into these areas. i should also say I hold him to a higher standard as someone who regularly platforms much more radical people than himself if that makes any sense.

to be more specific i wish he would connect bernie's weakness in addressing the concerns of black people to his total lack of concern for the colonial subjects outside of the US' borders, possible i missed this (im drunk rn i will admit). i think i get where you're coming from as far as the focus on electoralists being necessary for the vid, but i still think there is room to make it more clear without dipping into that territory of doing that lecturing? idk, something like "even many of you more 'principled' revolutionary socialists ignore this"? i am not black so as far as exact wording and what not i dont want to make any firm claims lol

i guess my wish is that he will utilize his incredible ability to hit white lib guilt buttons and gently nudge them in a more revolutionary, scientific socialist way if that makes sense.

sorry, i know all of this because i read Losurdo's book Class Struggle btw

for the unaware PJ = pug jesus lol

full comment here but i think it's not even being "pretty poor in race relations" but instead is just a total misrepresenting of class struggle that older black voters are much more likely to pick up on because white workers have repeatedly betrayed them in the past in exchange for these lofty soc dem reforms that i dont think younger black voters will have picked up on because of how younger white people are becoming much more proletarianized again.

my 2 cents: he's right that bernie sanders doesnt correctly address race issues, but it's because bernie is a soc dem who (whether willingly or mistakenly it doesnt really matter) misunderstands and misrepresents class struggle, and that to actually combat capitalism ignoring/downplaying the racial aspect of classes in capitalism is to totally misrepresent reality and thus have no chance of actually achieving real meaningful progress towards socialism.

even though he does mention that this vid was specifically directed toward electoralists, he still took a shot at revolutionary socialists anyways so alongside him totally ignoring bernie sanders other glaring issues (laptog for imperialism etc.) which arise from the same place as his lack of attention to black issues, i think this was among FD Signifier's bad videos

post it to r/trueanon should do numbers there

admins need to pin this to the front page

edit: my wish has been granted. the report button is a powerful tool to get the admins to pin posts...

in awe at this one

i didnt really think most of them were living it up (hence the "suffering as much" part of the comment) but i'll admit I havent read nearly enough about this subject so i will defer to you here

many people get material benefits from loving the boot. we must convince them that we can give even better benefits or we will never win.

if it helps you feel better i have to imagine many of them are from one of the higher castes so they didnt suffer as much under colonialism as the lowest castes.

inaccurate see lussy's comment below

Unfortunately, the ruling classes of the imperial core will use the working class as human shields and pass on as much misery to them as possible (like Thatcher and Reagan but much worse),

i mean this is always true, it's not like during the chinese century of humiliation it wasnt the working class peasants who took by far the brunt of that burden

i would be surprised if this was anyone on the left tbh. like, there have already been a few attempted blue maga shootings/bombings right? just by pure population numbers its much more likely some libs with guns got really inspired by that "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants" quote lol

i dont disagree that it is slop, but i also think it's a very interesting how much the bourgeoisie are freaking out about him, for whatever reason (probably just racism ig lol) they certainly believe him to be hiding the views of the average hexbear news mega poster or something like that

China can of course choose to democratize the technology by sharing them with the developing countries, but that would end up killing their own private companies that needs to survive on the market economy.

on my hands and knees begging the CPC to hit the communism button

youtube and local subreddits lol, i really mostly hear about things on hexbear these days. ig occasionally my mom will tell me about something she saw on facebook and ill go peruse the mainstream news sites like AP to see if she's spouting off misinformation lol