Excuse me, this is a safe space from toxic capitalist liberal identity politics.

I’m too oppressed by capitalism to deal with your snowflake garbage right now.

I can’t perform the emotional labor to explain why you need more class analysis/socialist history/revolutionary strategy/Marxist theory. Google it.

So-and-so is a heinous identitarian liberal capitalist traitor to the class struggle and should self-criticize.

I’ve often complained about callout culture. But is it really callout culture which is the problem?

It’s really the underlying political assumptions underneath of callout culture.

We call out CEOs and millionaires and politicians all the time. There’s nothing wrong with this. It’s when we call out other ordinary people, other members of the working class, that we’re probably erring towards moralistic and futile communication.

In order to fight callout culture, we’re probably going to have to utilize some of it.

Basically, the idea is that in the post World War II economic boom, capitalism has become so hyper-successful in the USA that a new ultra-liberal, yet still capitalist, culture has started to predominate over it. Liberalism is decreasingly enthusiastic about FDR partial wealth redistribution (it shut down Bernie) and instead needs some other mascot. It chooses to exploit the struggles of oppressed identities in the most cynical way as its justifying principle, not remotely in a way that radicals can collaborate with, but actively as an attack on working class politics and a continuous betrayal of the oppressed identities themselves.

Not that any of this is incredibly evident to the modern Left. The current Left is currently tripping over itself tailing after the mainstream liberals, eating up every identitarian fad and trend the liberals feed us as they actively erase any and all space that could be used to resist the ever-intensifying onslaught on the economic standard of living. There is only so much space and attention span people have. For example, we probably just let Congress pass tax cuts for the rich, which was barely in the news, because we were all distracted by celebrity sexual misconduct scandals, whereas we should have been shutting Congress down like the Egyptians shut down the government in Tahrir Square in their last revolution.

Come on, Saturn, you might be thinking – what’s wrong with identity struggles? It’s that no identity struggle is ever going to be advanced or completed without advancing the class struggle. All identity struggles are centered in and completed in the class struggle. And they can’t develop the structural change or mass participation or long-term staying power necessary to win like class struggle can.

It’s also that we’ve gotten to a point where literally no Left organization, movement, or scene can exist without getting burned down by some kind of identity-based drama or accusations before reaching a few thousand members.

So the time has come to start using their weapons of conversational intolerance against them. It’s not like they want to communicate politely with us. Let’s save ourselves the trouble.

Persuasion works, but for people who are thickheaded, sometimes force is the best form of persuasion. We must embrace the reactionary truth that sometimes sense is knocked into people. Sometimes you can’t make a point without being pointed. Sometimes when people won’t listen, cutting them off is the only way they grow up and start considering a different point of view.