Some idpolers aren't even familiar with the concept of class so maybe educate them.
What far-left groups are against identity politics?
Isaiah Gray
Isaiah Nelson
Yeah, I agree. In the reparations thread a lot of people were saying that once we abolish capitalism there won't be any need for reparations, which is totally insane given the state of the average African-American. I think you're right that people see a bunch of tumblr-tier discussions about race (and sex and religion and whatever else) and assume anyone who wants to talk about those issues is a liberal.
Jason Smith
How is that insane? If you create a socialist system isn't it sort of inbuilt that you economically everyone is put on the same level?
Not asking to be a dick, I'm not even a burger or against reparations.
Connor Moore
It's a really hard issue to discuss because there's a whole lot of really bad ways to implement reparations, because it deals with a community that has suffered both civic, economic and cultural damage - thus simple solutions like simply cutting all black people a check would not go very long to solve the problem.
Jaxon Nelson
What do reparations even mean in the context of socialism? I'm a socialist because I'm a proletarian, and that's the only coherent reason to be one. Class interest necessitates that workers of the world unite to overthrow a system that exploits our surplus labor. This is in no way requires a vague wishy washy kind of egalitarianism based on redistributing property or money. Socialism is the project to abolish these things, and communism is its highest form.
Not my fault if the Soviet Union muddled these things, and not my fault if it collapsed, but muddling up socialism into a vague worker's state isn't totally unrelated to its gradual decay and recapture by capitalism.
Gavin Gonzalez
wrong, you were there, you are the only one left to blame
Jordan Sanchez
Comrade, I…
Henry Collins
That's because slavery was more than just an economic system of exploitation, it was also one of deculturization and dehumanization. Thus socialism alone will not rehabilitate their culture and their humanity alone, only create the breathing-room for such social change to occur. The change will still have to happen, and they will still have to be reintegrated into society as a whole.
Liam Moore
here you are, bout to fuck up the entire USSR infrastructure with your shitty Grobachev-ass market reforms
Justin Moore
The USSR recognized that the development of the nations which had been colonized by the Russian Empire had been retarded by colonialism and implemented significant policies to correct that. They also implemented affirmative action for the disadvantaged nationalities (as I said upthread). They didn't simply establish socialism and wait for it to even out.