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On #HolocaustMemorialDay it's incumbent upon us to remember what was in effect the near-total destruction of the Jewish working class in Europe & its revolutionary tradition, culture & Yiddish language. A culmination of capitalist European nationalism & intensifying antisemitism.
many of the logics & material relations that produced this unthinkable trauma & catastrophe are still with us in the banal violence of borders, the callous & normalised racist discourse & the violence of both state/police racism and popular racism, isolated or organised.
it is essential people don't petrify the Shoah in stone, a moralistic & meaningless liberal isolation that obscures how colonialism structures our world, part of a longer history of "race" in the age of capitalism.
and it's frankly shameful how bad most of the white left's "race literacy" is despite having so many resources at our fingerprints and a long history of racialised and colonised revolutionaries being forced to educate it all the time.
standards of antiracism need to be held at a drastically higher standard, incl. the sea of "left wing" cranks & chauvinists, conspiracy theorists & nationalists that represent some continuity in the histories of spectral convergence in European society on whiteness-nationalism
