Hi. I'm a black anti - racist. I have noticed that there is a lot of racism on the left. It's less overt than racism from the right. But it's there. A mixture of dismissive attitudes, paternalism, and superiority.

First of all the working class is not homogenous. The conceit of class is that it throws everyone of different background or socio-historical backgrounds as one as if they are naturally one and the same. It allows whites to believe that they are equally oppressed as people of color. Marx and many of these writers lived in mainly homogenous European countries. They did not experience racism and it's devastating effects. Marx even concentrated his working class analysis on the European man (even ignoring women and children who made up a good deal of the working class in europe.) His movement was called the international working "men" party.

Black people naturally want true freedom and liberation, but many in the white working class in Amerikkka for instance seem to be against it. They see non-whites or non-white advancement as a threat to their privilege. Many working class whites feel entitled to Amerikkkan privilege (based on its white supremacist construction) and easily and emotionally fall for racism, chauvinism, fascism, anti immigration, and other far right directions than to have any "class solidarity". They support the police,army, and status quo while many people of color suffer. The starch enemy of Amerikkkan capitalism and status quo and Amerikkkan white supremacy has always been blacks from Malcolm x, the black panthers,and now black lives matter (liberal, but has potential). Many black people have rioted for decades from anger. That spontaneous insurrection. And you know what, the so-called white proletariat calls us terrorists, even though the real terrorists is the Amerikkkan state. That's reality. And Many white leftists seem to be afraid to allow blacks to speak their mind and let our their voices and to let out what true change should be for them. Many white anarchist males or white socialist males or white leftists in general truly believe that they have some kind of authority to say what oppression is important and what isn't. They seem to believe that they speak for oppressed minorities or women or lgbtq people of the lower social ladders. The only thing that they can relate to is class and they constantly try to reduce everything to class. This is why many Amerikkkan socialist parties are mostly white and male. A good example was the mostly white and mostly middle class and liberal Occupy Wall St. When the few blacks that were in Occupy tried to speak their mind and voice on their racial oppression, they were shut down and told to focus on class.

They use this scheme of calling other oppressions (that they themselves don't face ) "identity politics". What identity politics really is is a middle class or upper class person of color, woman, or lgbtq person uses their oppressed identity to place themselves in a high position in society such as being elected as a politician. I really refer to it as representative politics. these kinds of people try to speak for oppressed minorities to make it seem as if they themselves would fix it or that they face these things to harshest extent , which is false since they are upper class. They would probably say things like "vote or support me..i understand you" or "ill be the first....". That is identity politics. Issues such as racism, sexism, homophobic, transphobia, and etc are not identity politics. People within the "working class" actually face these things. These are all class forms in itself. White = most likely to be higher class, higher chance of social mobility. Black =most likely to be lower class, low chance of social mobility. These theorists such as Marx, Proudhon, etc spoke for the "working class". The working class must speak for themselves (blacks, women, lgbtq, disabled people.)That's how it works. From the bottom. Not from the top by middle class Petit bourgeois intellectuals (who were also racists and sexists)

Heck, many whites on the left such as anarchists are middle class. Lol. I remember the reddit surveys showing nearly all white and male.

If you guys want to reach out to people of color or women and other oppressed, you might want to try a better approach. Otherwise enjoy your whites only party.

I don't believe that whites are the proletariat. They are working class or can be poor, but they are not proletariat. Yes there are poor whites that are exploited but that's an effect of capitalism. Whereas for black peole it is because we are black. But once that white poor person beats poverty, there are no other oppressive mechanisms against them.

I truly believe that there would be black movements and radical feminist movements and movement poor people that would eventually intersect to fight capitalism. It just may not be called anarchist or socialist movements. Though they may be based on these ideas and may apply them to the liberation movements because they would naturally want their new society to be a negation the previous system.

Anyway that is that. And if you don't like it....too bad.