Does anybody remember when the Left was Woody Guthrie and Mother Jones and Appalachian coal miners? Hmm? Now Appalachian coal miners are the people who stood in the schoolhouse door, Jones is the poster child for a political class that hates working people, and Woody Guthrie must either be discarded or turned into a transgender Hispanic moslem.
The ultimate irony is that Leftism is in its entirety a creation of Europeans. Its roots lie in Greek philosophy, Renaissance humanism, "enligtenment" rationalism and nineteenth century European materialism. Does that sound like anything Australian aborigines or Eskimos or Khoisan would have created? Does it? I thought "indigenous people" and "people of color" had "spirituality" and were "one with the universe?"
Non-Europeans have simply adopted Karl Marx as a nationalist icon in the same way white nationalists adopted J*sus as a nationalist icon. Any economic theories are an afterthought; it's the iddic (is that a word?) primeval nationalism that is the selling point. Even honest leftists (whom you never hear from because they're honest) admit this.
Non-Europeans have done this for decades. Observe how most Black churches discarded their traditional Biblical fundamentalism and replaced it with pilfered radical nineteenth century German higher critical "theology" (eg Martin Luther King). It's cultural appropriation!
People used to speculate about "reverse racism." This is not reverse racism. We've gone far, far beyond that. This is reverse Nazism. (And by the way, if Blacks and Hispanics "can't be racists," why have Leftists been calling the Israelis (lehavdil!) "Nazis" for decades? If there were any people who legitimately "can't be racists" you'd think it would be the Jews.
Excellent post. Lot’s of good points!