I want to lefty my poc friends who are only focused on trump election because of fear of being targeted because of...

I want to lefty my poc friends who are only focused on trump election because of fear of being targeted because of their race. They are class conscious but still wrapped up in idpol. How do I start?

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marxist.com/fascism-in-america-fight-racism-with-socialism.htm
socialist.net/malcolm-x-you-show-me-a-capitalist-i-ll-show-you-a-bloodsucker.htm
socialist.net/on-the-programme-of-the-black-panther-party-which-way-forward-for-black-workers-and-youth.htm
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start by not being a tankie

Start by doing some reading, honestly. Find other people's arguments and use them to shape your own.

marxist.com/fascism-in-america-fight-racism-with-socialism.htm

socialist.net/malcolm-x-you-show-me-a-capitalist-i-ll-show-you-a-bloodsucker.htm

socialist.net/on-the-programme-of-the-black-panther-party-which-way-forward-for-black-workers-and-youth.htm

marxist.com/usa-should-we-fear-or-fight-the-alt-right.htm

Start with these articles. Either use the points in your own words, or send them straight to your friends if you think they're the right tone and terminology/level of political content for your friends to really understand and appreciate them. Talk to them about racism as tied to capitalism, and Trump as a symptom of capitalist development.

If you want to convince someone of something, you first need to properly understand it yourself.

Fearing you'll be targeted based on ethnicity is idpol now?

No, I don't think their fears about being physically targeted or suffering disproportionately are not valid, its just their fear has turned them into reactionaries. They position themselves against the white working class and focus on making gains through the system for their racial identity rather than tearing the system down completely.

He could have meant both.

As in, they are legitimately concerned about x, but do not see x as a symptom of y - when in fact it is a symptom of y, and thus while it is important to fight x, without ultimately fighting y as the core battle, you are stuck in a never ending fight against x, because y ensures its continued existence.

This is how you move people into genuine socialist anti-capitalist politics. You understand their existing demands as legitimate, but as symptoms of a deeper cause; capitalism. You understand it well enough to explain it to them.

Stop this, Holla Forums, nobody cares about your fucking graphs.

Well is that wrong? The system won't go down anytime soon

And it'll go down a lot slower - infinitely slower - if people continue to fight only the symptoms of it and not the cause.

It is like a doctor prescribing pain-killers for cancer. It targets what the disease has caused, but it will never cure the root of the problem.

Why does a supposed worker's movement keep on trying to appeal to lumpenproles who sell crack to each other and only care about buying their next pair of air Jordans by any means necessary?