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Westerners exist as a class against the Global South and there are nations of folks that within the imperial cores that are more fruitful in targetting for whom destruction of imperialism is in their benefit.
Having a material basis for the organisation of movements means having an honest analysis on the nature of labour aristocracy and settlerism. Any succesful movement will offer more than the imperialist state can offer but that requires targetting sections of the popularion outside of typical voting blocks.
I'm not saying there isn't a creative way of getting a sizable amount of settlers to join the cause but history shows the track record has not been great.
Accusations of campism and race reductionism is why the CPUSA has devolved into what it is today. Want more CPUSAs, fucking have at it. Westerners cosplaying with sickle and hammer refusing to actually move the needle forward ain't my fucking problem. It offends your white sensibilities? Good.
The immortal science of marxism-leninism is despite Marx and Engels being white. It's that good. White is a social relation, it can be dismantled.
"Westerners" are not a class. You are bastardizing the word to the point of uselessness. May as well be calling humans a class that oppresses other primates.
My "white sensibilities" are not offended; what is offending me is your Vulgar Marxism that conflates CPUSA's pro-settler ideology with the entirety of the American Left. I didn't even mention the CPUSA and I don't care for them. I accused you of being a campist and race reductionist because that's what you're doing: making excuses for Chinese billionaires and placing race over class in a hierarchy of analysis instead of treating them as equal forces.
You say white is a social relation, you say it can be dismantled, yet you categorically dismiss the idea multiple times previously and assert that socialism in the West is pointless in what is very clearly Third Worldist drivel. Your analysis isn't productive; it is divisive. No one is going to deny that workers in the Core have it better than workers in the Periphery. No one is going to deny that this privilege makes it harder to persuade Core workers to socialism since they are used to better conditions. But to treat it like its a hopeless cause is defeatism.
What exactly do you expect comrades in the West to do? You seem convinced that we can't actually do anything useful to contribute to the international movement so should we just give up or runaway to AES states or what? Like, what is the point of saying all this stuff? What practical purpose does this kind of analysis serve?