THREAD. I have been reluctant to say anything about Sanders's promotion of Rogan’s endorsement because if Sanders wins the nomination, I will certainly vote for him. But it’s very disturbing to me that the Bernie Sanders Twitter handle promoted a racist, transphobic, misogynist.
The Sanders campaign said “Sharing a big tent requires including those who do not share every one of our beliefs”. The Sanders campaign says it’s better to have a hateful bigot INSIDE their tent, than to drive someone like Rogan into Trump’s arms.
Of course, Bernie Sanders’s idea of "revolution" is totally different from Communist revolutions and the US is a democracy. But Sanders does share the orthodox Marxist belief that class takes precedence over gender, race, sexuality or any other kind of “identity” issue.
Sanders is explicitly courting white, male, working-class voters, even if they are bigots, like Rogan. I’ve been thinking about China’s Communist revolution and there are lessons for us in America as we choose the best candidate to defeat Trump and lead us as the next President.
As I write in my book #BetrayingBigBrother: The Feminist Awakening in China, many of the Communist revolutionaries in the 1920s supported the emancipation of women. Mao Zedong, who decades later became a brutal dictator, was incredibly idealistic and feminist as a young man.
Mao wrote essays in 1919 about the suicide of a young woman, “Miss Zhao,” who slit her own throat as she was being taken to her future husband’s home for an arranged marriage. Mao wrote that Miss Zhao’s death “is a result of a corrupt marriage system”...[#BetrayingBigBrother] 
"...a dark social system, a will that cannot be independent, and love that cannot be free.” Mao argued that social norms must be completely overhauled in order to find lasting solutions to the problems of marriage and free will for women – and he was right about that in 1919.
The first woman to emerge as a leader in the Chinese Communist network was 23-year-old Wang Huiwu, a feminist activist. Her most prominent essay was “The Chinese Woman Question: Liberation from a Trap,” published in 1919.
After the formation of the Chinese Communist Party in 1921, the first decision of its Central Committee was to put Wang Huiwu and another radical woman, Gao Junman, in charge of launching a women’s program. Wang was allowed to launch a new journal for women, “Women’s Voices”...
International Women’s Day celebrations in major Chinese cities became increasingly radical in their demands for women’s rights. In 1926 in Guangzhou alone, over 10,000 people gathered for International Women’s Day, calling for an end to arranged marriage, freedom to divorce...
…gender equality in wages, and the elimination of child brides etc. But, as I write in #BetrayingBigBrother, the Communist Party formally abandoned feminism at its Sixth Congress in 1928, held in Moscow.
The Party passed a “Resolution on the Women’s Movement” which explicitly denounced the “bourgeois feminist” women’s program of the previous 8 years, said it had “been a mistake to allow the establishment of independent women’s associations”...
...and adopted the orthodox Communist position on the “primacy of economic class oppression over gender exploitation,” says historian Christina Gilmartin.
Virtually all communist revolutions in the world have put class before gender, race or sexual identity, and this kind of orthodox, Marxist thinking is deeply flawed and has never actually succeeded in history. (Above screenshots from my book #BetrayingBigBrother)
All this is to say that we need to move beyond orthodox, Marxist thinking. We need to learn from history and we can't keep betraying women, BIPOC, and the LGBTQIA community in the interests of a "greater goal" of winning over more white, working-class, male voters.
At this moment of grave crisis for our democracy, when our president is a racist misogynist, accused of sexual assault by at least 25 women, I believe the best person to defeat Trump and lead us as our next president is an intersectional, feminist woman: @ewarren #AAPIsWithWarren
@ewarren End of thread. LFG @TeamWarren!
