When Michael Parenti polemicized against what he called the “anything but class” left, he was describing a pattern of thinking that communists will need to expunge from our movement in order to defeat the state. This is the impulse to emphasize the differences between the workers, more than the things that unite the workers. To focus so much on the distinctions between white workers, black workers, Native workers, “professional managerial class” workers (which some now foolishly include service workers in the definition of), and so on that the rhetoric of these ABC leftists has the effect of making a unified workers movement less attainable.
Well, state power loves the woke oppression Olympics--the competition for who's the mostest oppressest---reality doesn't factor into any of it. It uses the woke power to further economically and violently coerce workers into obedience. Corporations use it as coercion to fire you at will and the state will keep the cell door open for you. And liberals aren't "leftists" in any category other than supporting capitalism as that end of the political spectrum. Marxists aren't even on the same plane with a completely different political economy. There is a hilarious Phil Ochs song about "Love me, I'm a Liberal" if you want a good laugh. Says this in a comical way.
Well, state power loves the woke oppression Olympics--the competition for who's the mostest oppressest---reality doesn't factor into any of it. It uses the woke power to further economically and violently coerce workers into obedience. Corporations use it as coercion to fire you at will and the state will keep the cell door open for you. And liberals aren't "leftists" in any category other than supporting capitalism as that end of the political spectrum. Marxists aren't even on the same plane with a completely different political economy. There is a hilarious Phil Ochs song about "Love me, I'm a Liberal" if you want a good laugh. Says this in a comical way.
This is, unfortunately, very class reductionist.
That's sarcasm, right? You didn't just completely miss the point did you?