Thread by @queersocialism

i don’t think leftists who romanticize the fantasy of “radicalizing” fascists—whether they are poor or petite-bourgeois—understand they are often doing the very thing they hate about liberal representationists and how they treat/have co-opted & neoliberalized identity politics.

treating a marginalized positionality, identity—in this case “working class” standing—as inherently moral, good natured, and progressive. despite their ideological and political alignment representing that of a class traitor. is this not what liberal identity reductionists do?

i’m tweeting this because it’s something i’ve been thinking a lot, and feel i am just finding the words to articulate what i’m saying. but if i’m off base let me know.

also, i intentionally call it a “romanticized fantasy” b/c attempting to change the minds of poor white supremacists is not something the vast majority of you advocating for this, are actively doing, attempting to do, or even supporting those who may already be doing this work).

and this isn’t even to say that it shouldn’t be done, or that minds can’t be shifted, and people can’t be reformed. they can, i’ve seen it for myself.

but, what does it mean when you are more concerned w/people who want us dead & are invested in the maintenance of this white order than millions of racialized people who have divested from this system and are desperately seeking an alternative to their social/political realities?

i know someone’s going to quote-tweet with this “why not both?” and it can’t be both because even if both is possible, it is clearly not a reality, as reflected by your political organizations (re: their racial demographics and aims).