This is an interesting essay that claims that hierarchies within the working class do matter (in this case they are talking about racial hierarchiess). They claim that putting class above race in anti-imperialist struggles is "a fundamental misunderstanding of how power operates in the modern world".
They claim that "it often assumes a false universalism where 'working class solidarity' can somehow transcend racial hierarchies without directly confronting them"
The article you provide a link to (bettbeat...) criticizes those like Jimmy Dore who supposedly say "The focus on race distracts from class issues." The author of the article you provide apparently thinks Dore is wrong because it is wrong to stop focusing on race.
So where do I fit into this dispute?
My position (which I tried to make clear in my post) is that it is right to focus on racial discrimination (to identify it and condemn it) but that the WAY to focus on it is to explain that racial discrimination is an attack not only on the obvious race discriminated against but ALSO is an attack on ALL working class people of ALL races, for the reasons I explained in my article and that are pithily expressed as "Among working class people AN INJURY TO ONE IS AN INJURY TO ALL."
Thus I have been writing extensively for many years against Zionist oppression of Palestinians, but I have been also pointing out that this oppression is an attack on the Jewish working class of Israel too (see my article that does this at https://www.pdrboston.org/israel-s-government-attacks-jews-to .) My approach is thus not to focus mainly on race (or ethnicity, etc.) nor to focus mainly on class, but to focus on the CONNECTION between racial (ethnic) oppression and class oppression.
Jimmy Dore, for all of his rhetorical emphasis on class, does NOT expose the anti-working-class (including anti-JEWISH-working class) purpose of Zionism, and for this reason he does not persuade to be anti-Zionist the enormous number of people who support Israel because they think that's what one must do to "be on the side of the Jews." My approach DOES persuade to be anti-Zionist even initially passionately pro-Israel Jews (as long as they aren't rich people.)
This is an interesting essay that claims that hierarchies within the working class do matter (in this case they are talking about racial hierarchiess). They claim that putting class above race in anti-imperialist struggles is "a fundamental misunderstanding of how power operates in the modern world".
They claim that "it often assumes a false universalism where 'working class solidarity' can somehow transcend racial hierarchies without directly confronting them"
https://bettbeat.substack.com/p/the-imperialism-of-white-anti-imperialism
The article you provide a link to (bettbeat...) criticizes those like Jimmy Dore who supposedly say "The focus on race distracts from class issues." The author of the article you provide apparently thinks Dore is wrong because it is wrong to stop focusing on race.
So where do I fit into this dispute?
My position (which I tried to make clear in my post) is that it is right to focus on racial discrimination (to identify it and condemn it) but that the WAY to focus on it is to explain that racial discrimination is an attack not only on the obvious race discriminated against but ALSO is an attack on ALL working class people of ALL races, for the reasons I explained in my article and that are pithily expressed as "Among working class people AN INJURY TO ONE IS AN INJURY TO ALL."
Thus I have been writing extensively for many years against Zionist oppression of Palestinians, but I have been also pointing out that this oppression is an attack on the Jewish working class of Israel too (see my article that does this at https://www.pdrboston.org/israel-s-government-attacks-jews-to .) My approach is thus not to focus mainly on race (or ethnicity, etc.) nor to focus mainly on class, but to focus on the CONNECTION between racial (ethnic) oppression and class oppression.
Jimmy Dore, for all of his rhetorical emphasis on class, does NOT expose the anti-working-class (including anti-JEWISH-working class) purpose of Zionism, and for this reason he does not persuade to be anti-Zionist the enormous number of people who support Israel because they think that's what one must do to "be on the side of the Jews." My approach DOES persuade to be anti-Zionist even initially passionately pro-Israel Jews (as long as they aren't rich people.)
I see. Thank you for clarifying this