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Xopher
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I find class-first/only "Leftists" to be the most useless kind of activists in existence. No matter what they tell you, they're not really radicals. Just centrists with a Marxist vocabulary. They'll ignore race, gender, disability, neurodivergence, etc. and act like all those things can....🧵

Xopher
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....be magically solved by getting rid of capitalism. All those other things will wither away in the revolution. Of course, they imagine themselves in the inner circle of the revolution, if not actually at the top spot, not having to make any of the accommodations or compromises that inevitably...

Xopher
@xopher.blacksky.app

As a white leftist (but hopefully not a White Leftist), I've been thinking about this stuff for a while, and specifically that phrase. Class War is already here: Capitalism depends on it, just as White Supremacy depends on Race War and Patriarchy depends on Gender War.

Xopher
@xopher.blacksky.app

This was kind of triggered by some internet asshole dismissing depression and ADHD as simply the natural results of living under Capitalism, rather than their own thing. But what I really hate about my AuDHD is how often it keeps me not from doing things for the corporate machine....

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Xopher
@xopher.blacksky.app

...but how often it keeps me from doing things I *want* to do. Like creative writing, or art, or gaming, or just socializing. My brain's been really fuzzy the last few days, and while ending capitalism might help me get care, it's not going to change the chemistry of my brain. Anyway, rant over.