Some of thecrudest versions of economism go even further
<https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/08/mistaken-identity-asaid-haider-review-identity-politics>.
The idea that a socialist movement could lead struggles against both
capitalism and racism, an idea fundamental to the revolutionary
tradition and that has distinguished it from the various incarnations of
social democracy and reformism, is denounced as an attempt to infiltrate
the left and direct it to ends foreign to it: the “do both strategy”
allows “powerful enemies of the Left (and allies of capital)” to “worm
their way into our coalition and play up identity to reshape
working-class demands until they’re neutralized.” Here, those who face
violent state repression on a scale unknown to white workers (or
Leftists) and who dare to mobilize against this repression become
infiltrators who seek to “play up” identity to neutralize a purely
economic program. What is the effect of such a position? It leaves the
significant part of the working class that is African-American and
Latinx (who are projected to be fifty percent of the working class under
the age of 54 within ten years) to fight police killings, mass
incarceration and deportation on their own, and instructs the most
exploited, the poorest and those who daily face an array of threats
unique to them, to set aside their demands so as not to alienate those
who, however marginally, are better off in nearly every measurable way.
https://www.leftvoice.org/socialism-universalism-and-anti-anti-racism
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