This is an example of the kind of reductive dogmatic chauvinism I've been talking about. TwinRabbits constructed an incredible document of indigenous ideas which influenced Western socialism. The entire piece is dismissed because it also challenged whiteness. 
It would be absolutely fine to challenge that aspect of TwinRabbits' work, to engage with the question of whether TwinRabbits' evidence and reasoning were sound on that specific point. Instead the entire video, indeed, the entire perspective is dismissed out of hand.
And not even the point of contention itself (the question of white supremacy in the works of Marx and Engels) is ever addressed, explored, negated, synthesized, in any way. It's just dismissed, erased, cast aside, dogmatically.
I myself wouldn't even categorize Marx and Engels as *essentially* white supremacist, but I do think it's worth interrogating the concept of white supremacism and indigenous erasure in 19th century thought.
Dismissing an entire subject, an entire perspective, and a very well researched document, all because it undermines a dogmatic narrative you uphold, is chauvinist idealism.
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