Stop talking to other leftists

Navigating 2020

How anti-capitalist navel-gazing undermines progress

Far too much is made of the anti-capitalist left and how we posture or strategize regarding our pressure on establishment forces.

And not nearly enough discourse is aimed at Dem casuals despite their hand in bringing us to this point — their resistance to analyzing class conflict, their susceptibility to weaponized identity politics, their utter lack of imagination regarding what function government has in the promotion of its people’s well-being.

And less still is aimed at so-called conservatives whose political and historical ignorance is so far divorced from reality that they truly are the perfection of working class exploitation: they suffer many of the same ills as us, yet have been convinced to the point of violent rage that we, in our attempts to liberate the working class, are their enemies.

I’m not telling you to berate these people or that discourse would consist of the finger-wagging woke-scolding bullshit we’re so good at (of which this article is not an exception). It’s easy to perceive as evil or personal failure what is really just the product of a tremendous effort to manufacture consent. In any case, the focus of our energy needs to be directed at the actual problem in America: not how the existing left is interacting with the establishment (these will always be dumpster fire lose-lose conversations because we’re hyper-focused on binary outcomes), but rather how to grow anti-capitalist sentiment itself by talking to people that don’t yet agree with us, people that haven’t even had an introduction to concepts like socialism or critical theory. In different terms, how to bring the left’s ideas toward the center of mainstream discourse.

And of course, there is a space of maximum reach that is different for each of us. For instance, I…

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