"We need to think about our impact on the world and show more solidarity with the people being exploited to maintain this unsustainable system we're benefiting from."
I think this is an example of taking everything as absolutes, that acknowledging that labor aristocracy is a problem can’t just be a call for taking that into consideration and actively working to address it. No, it must mean they’re arguing there’s an intractable gulf between the working class in the “developed” world and in the “undeveloped” world and thus no international solidarity.
It’s a problem that can go both ways. You’ve got types like this where they don’t want to hear about the shortcomings of social democracy in the West and where the wealth comes from so they yell about solidarity. But there are some types on the other end that use this as an excuse to check out; “Western leftists are too tainted with labor aristocracy, the revolution will come from the periphery, so I don’t need to get involved in activism here in the West.”
There's some weird shit in this whole kerfuffle like this guy claiming he met one person canvassing who was dismayed the DSA hadn't taken a position on Hong Kong or something and that's what's at stake here
He always does this shit. Pissing people off then acting superior and impressing no one other than himself. That or copying joke references from DSA twitter.
Like Alexander Reid Ross and other negative clout academikkks who are willing to tell people they've been stalking our forums, he's just become a joke to me. Maybe like Ross he will get ousted for sexual harrassment.