The equation of #BLM with Marxism - let's call it what it is: a fascist trope, drawn logically from the Great Replacement Theory. Marxists support #BLM but so do many social-democrats, liberals and, obviously, football players...
.... when Turning Point and their online grifters amplify the "cultural Marxism" slander, they are proving a key point in #HowToStopFascism... right wing populism has failed as a firewall against fascism: it is being consumed by fascism...
... don't look in the political science textbooks for an explanation of this: look to history. Google D'Annunzio, Hugenberg - populism is anti-theoretical, fascism profoundly theoretical.... the theory fills the void in the heads of boneheads, misogynists and racists...
... and let's be honest about this: working class Tories will now say "we won't vote Labour because you keep saying we're racist"... and then applaud the booing of footballers... there's only one answer: you are racist - but here's a way out...
... Marxism, paradoxically, is far more convinced than liberalism and social democracy that *workers learn in struggle*; in 40 years of activism I've seen racist workers become anti-racist through experience...
... for us the labour movement is a line drawn through the working class, just as a picket line is. On one side stand people committed to solidarity, tolerance and the future; on the other, the scabs, racists and nostalgics...
... this is why liberal media types continually ask the Labour left to "stop saying racist people are racist" - they believe consciousness can never change. They also have no material explanation of where the racism comes from....
.... #BLM is the first mass movement for decades that traces the structural racism of the UK/USA to their historic roots, in slavery and colonialism... we should be proud of England's footballers and tell the racists to **** off.
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