The Deprogram

It's going to be an uphill battle to convince westerners who are already tilted on the axis of benefiting from imperialism to then disavow a patriarchal society of the imperial cores that provides those benefits.

Let's look at some counter examples of relatively better functional transgender rights than a lot of the west:

• India (socially conservative patriachal society (ies), reactionary stance in aligning with Western imperialism and neocolonialism, some of the worst human rights records against folks who arent cis-men)
• Iran (could be argued a socially conservative society*, progressive stance against imperialism. *= massive caveat when you look at the actual high numbers for example STEM and acaedemia numbers of women in Iran)
• Cuba (socialist society with significant Catholic population, under brutal sanctions/hybrid warfare by the west; arguably some of the best transgender rights in the world)

I used the above three examples because of their significant differences but also a glaring similarity - none of them share the benefits from being a westerner.

Transgender emanicpation is not "add-on" that the liberal framework of intersectionalism would like us to believe; it is intrinsic to marxism-leninsim, beating capital and fighting Western imperialism. The patriarchy exists functionally to exploit those who are not a stright cis man harder, and it is upheld by various westerners (women, folks of colour etc) who get a piece of that imperialist pie as a reward. It is why, for example, a bunch of the early British suffragettes readily joined the British Union of Fascists and why "feminist" JK Rowling is not only a rabid transphobe but also deeply racist - the two go hand in hand.

It is so bad that there is a whole discussion in Marxism to let go of feminism as a term because it does not go far enough for women/queer/trans rights, and carries too much imperialist baggage with it.

The ACP are not anything new - they have been functionally what western workers have always been as a class - the concession they got for the welfare state is the continued exploitation of the other:

https://redsails.org/concessions/

It is why strasserites were a thing and why nazis shot them once they killed off and kicked out all the "undesirables".

What are the strategic consequences of decisively rejecting the tripartite social theory advanced by Orwell, and adopting Marx’s all-encompassing one instead? The basic call to action looks something like this:

Stop accusing the masses of being “brainwashed.” Stop treating them as cattle, stop attempting to rouse them into action by scolding them with exposure to “unpleasant truths.”

Accept instead that they have been avoiding those truths for a reason. You were able to break through the propaganda barrier, and so could they if they really wanted to. Many of these people see you as the fool, and in many cases not without reason.

Understanding people as intelligent beings, craft a political strategy that convincingly makes the case for why they and their lot are very likely to benefit from joining your political project. Not in some utopian infinite timescale, but soon.

If you cannot make this case, then forget about convincing the person in question. Focus instead on finding other people to whom such a case can be made. This will lead you directly to class analysis.

https://redsails.org/masses-elites-and-rebels/

The unfortunate truth is a lot of western "marxists" and leftists aren't all that left. They engage in proudhonism (go look up some proudhon quotes, say they are from marx and let's see how many likes you will get) and are functionally left-liberals. They buy into industrial vs finance capital (see how popular Hudson is and important reminder that Nazis did the same), not understand how deeply the relation of capital holds (see how popular MMT is), hold on to reactionary sentiments (see how popular anti-AI is), defend socdem apologism (Mamdanis, DSA, Greens etc), refuse to study the science of what makes a group revolutionary (non-material defense of USAmerican veterans - they come from poor backgrounds, they were fooled into it, some of them regret what happened and are "anti-war", sentimentalise the quality of life of veterans who aren't cared for, eg PSL) etc etc

Again there's a discussion about even abandoning the whole left-right spectrum given 99% of western left is functionally anti-marxism leninism, and we understand left deviation within ML itself is not "less wrong" than right deviation [ie ML is a science and therefore it should be ML vs (right + left)]. Tbh I am not there (yet?).

Best of luck

https://redsails.org/the-problem-of-recognition-in-transitional-states/