2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Third Way Progressives, Screwing the Plebs [View all]AOR
(692 posts)that classical Marxists fail to grasp the whole picture. Those "leftists and Marxists" who don't grasp the whole picture that Social and Economic justice can't be separated are not Marxists to begin with. That would indeed include the new breed of "Cultural Marxists" and the "New Leftists" in which identity politics takes precedence over class struggle and class analysis and who are as clueless as the CPUSA and the DSA who think the "road to Socialism" runs through the Democratic Party.
"Class reductionist" are the words of reactionary "leftists" unable to deal with the objective material realities of scientific socialism and historical materialism. And yes Tim Wise and those of his ilk are reactionary assholes in case you needed any further explanation.
Also...proclaiming that capitalism is a cancer on society (which in fact it is) and unwaveringly knowing and stating which side one stands on (in the relationship between labor and capital and ruling class vs working class) are entirely two different things. One represents a feel-good slogan the other represents class struggle.