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A chat on subreddit /r/PoliticalCompassMemes
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I mean, legit yes. I have a copy-paste comment for this hold on:

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Modern IdPol is sharply split between Post-Marxist (Orange) and Post-Confederate (Yellow) ideological roots. The former tending towards anti-Whiteness, and the latter White Supremacy. To break down why:

Marx's class analysis yielded three definite predictions. First, it predicted that the proletariat would both increase as a percentage of the population and become poorer: as capitalist competition progressed, more and more people would be forced to sell their labour; and as the supply of those selling their labour increased, the wages they could demand would necessarily decrease. Second, it predicted that the middle class would decrease to a very small percentage of the population: zero-sum competition means there are winners and losers, and while a few would consistently be winners and thus become rich capitalists, most would lose at some point and be forced into the proletariat. Third, it predicted that the capitalists would also decrease as a percentage of the population: zero-sum competition also applies to competition among the capitalists, generating a few consistent winners in control of everything while the rest would be forced down the economic ladder.

Yet that was not how it worked out. By the early twentieth century it seemed that all three of the predictions failed to characterize the development of the capitalist countries. The class of manual laborers had both declined as a percentage of the population and become relatively better off. And the middle class had grown substantially both as a percentage of the population and in wealth, as had the upper class.

Marx also predicted that these communism-driving negative effects of capitalism would be most prominent in developed nations where technological advancements reduced demand for agricultural labourers and allowed a greater percentage of the population to become urbanised, though this wasn't required for the core of his theory. This also failed to materialise as the revolution would eventually come from Russia, an agrarian society with minimal industrialisation that was trying to advance towards economic development.

The modern Identitarian Left, and a large number of current post-Marxist ideologies, took these failures and adapted the core of Marxist thought to new class groups. For the Maoists it was political class, for the Khmer nationalists it was ethnic, for the Late-Leninists and the Hoxhaists it was party conformity. Racial identitarianist forms of neo-Marxist thinking, such as Modern Identitarian Left proscribes, posits that the proletariat as described are actually racial minorities while the capitalist bourgeoisie overclass are generically 'white people'. All presented with no reference to real economic class only the class characteristics assigned to them. In this even the poorest of white trash rednecks individually is granted more sociocultural power than Obama, simply due to skin tone.

So those predictions also change, while retaining the same ideological core idea that socioeconomics exist in a zero-sum state with deliberate targeted action taken by both sides to establish dominance. Now urbanisation is replaced with racial policy (or a-racial advancement, BLM the organisation have stated they consider automation and property to be racist) as the driving factor in wage/QOL stagnation which is predicted to trigger a pseudo-slave class forming.

But where they agree most is on what must be done. By describing the current system as a zero-sum system of class repressions there can be no reform or elevation through work. As the lower class you are a victim and will always be a victim, even in a system that is strongly supportive of equal opportunity for equal ability, until you oppress the class that has oppressed you (even if that is based on the sins of a generation long dead, for oppressions of a generation long dead). You can never be more than that.

Of course this analysis misses the fact that poor white people exist, and other minority groups have succeeded within the current economic structure often despite unpalatable levels of bigotry. Adherents decide that it doesn't have to explain why this can be, they can simply call the routes to success evil which is where you have the National Museum of African American History &amp; Culture come out and say that hard work, progress, rational thinking, and self-reliance is 'whiteness' (EDIT - To make it clear, that museum is part of the Smithsonian Group. It's not some random backwater project run by identitarians, it's a federally-funded institution located a stones throw from the Washington Monument).

On a more overt level this kind of racial class system is why you can 'lose your black card' for not culturally 'staying in your lane'. Anything that makes you less of a victim takes you out of the class group defined by victimhood, and while the class is still named by race and obstensively based on it, it's really a two-factor socioeconomic class. Think about where that leaves you. If you succeed, you're not black. So black becomes an economic statement the same as proletariat - the classes remain undiluted by exceptions and the method of elevating communities through mutual work or providing opportunity is closed. Unless you rebuild society in such a way that these 'signs of whiteness' like hard work and progress do not offer direct advantage, then society will still be deemed oppressive against those displaying 'signs of blackness' which self-describe as in opposition to things like hard work, rational thinking, and progress.

The outcome of this is that Social and Economic class of traditional-Left thought has been slowly replaced with Racial class, yet the ideological core remains. It is left-wing ideology applied to racial lines. This is a complete opposite to the Post-Confederate forms which based their core ideological root on concepts of free association (including disassociation), racial determinism, and social Darwinism.
gpt
Bro, good effort, but I am not reading all that. That's the biggest wall of text I've seen on this sub.