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I am glad that Rising exists and is something different from the usual MSNBC pablum. That said, I caution everyone, who might be seeing Saagar Enjeti for the first time, to be careful listening to him. His ultimate political goal is to draw parts of the left into a devil's bargain where we throw certain groups under the bus (black people, undocumented immigrants) in order to achieve social democracy that is dictated by the right. I know it may be tempting to consider such a deal because his proposals do not explicitly exclude black and brown people from social democracy and because the Democratic Party is effective--and proud of it--at denying us social democracy.
As far as "woke" branding is concerned, they are not fooling anyone. They are appealing to white liberals who benefit from capitalism and its inequities. Rainbow washing only gives white liberals the fig leaf they want to reach a conclusion that they already wanted to reach, that social democracy is a handout to unworthy workers who have failed to adapt to the knowledge economy. Obviously white liberals will cloak there classism by saying that concerns about capitalism are an off shot of "white male entitlement" but most workers of color know that white liberals hate them too.
Concentrated capital is powerful because it is concentrated and well organized and workers of the world need to keep on organizing, building trans racial solidarity and ignoring fascist leaning social democrats as well as rainbow washed liberal capitalists.
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