KennystillaliveCan we shift the focus back onto class wars?
As long as we don’t forget that many human rights issues have been mislabeled “culture wars” to detract from their importance. The first battle in the class war will ever be the battle for solidarity, for we cannot stand together unless we all stand equal.
Yeah I’m tired of people fighting for basic rights and access to information being said to be engaging in culture war
I read a comment from a far right poster saying: “We would’ve been fine living out our lives. But you democrats just keep pushing.”
And I can’t help but get furious. WHAT is “pushing”? Who is being “pushed out”?? These people have so many blinders on for every form of change in the world, and see everything as an attack on them personally.
They are suffering from the degrading material conditions of capitalism and attributing the progress of other groups as the cause. That’s it. And that’s being fed to them by Media all day long. It’s not much more complicated than that.
Most aren’t married to racist or xenophobic beliefs. Often times you don’t need to even address those beliefs directly. It is much easier to direct their anger at their boss. Everyone has a boss that is fucking them over.
I’m not saying we don’t need to address existing structures of inequality. But that trying to first “change the mind of a racist” and only then redirect their anger into class solidarity is the wrong path.
The anger needs to be redirected first. It is significantly easier to address racism and xenophobia when they are no longer the scapegoat for the material problems all of the working class are facing.