Allyism

in brief

Ever since Marx, the educated class has practiced an over/under politics where the educated ruling class parades as the protector of the poor against some malevolent foe.

In our present era this political formula is advertised as "antiracism."  I call it Allyism. According to Matt Taibbi,

It sees the human being as locked into one of three categories: members of oppressed groups, allies, and white oppressors.

If you do a Google Search on "allyship" you will see what is going on.

You will notice that this "antiracism" Three Layer theory parallels the Marxist theory of class. For Marxism, we could say that

It sees the human being as locked into one of three categories: members of the proletariat, Communists, and bourgeois capitalist oppressors.

So nothing has changed, except that the left now operates a race theory of oppression whereas in the old days it imagined merely a class theory of oppression.

Hegel, it should be said, argued that a thing was the same as its opposite: thus the north pole of a magnet was identical to a south pole, except opposite.

So, just as the Marxists were and are classists, the Allyship chappies are racists.

There are other parallels. Back in the day, we now know, the proletariat as a class was rapidly rising in prosperity in step with the Great Enrichment that started about 200 years ago. The so-called oppressed peoples of today enjoy full rights under the Civil Rights Act and the patronage of the ruling class. So how bad could things be?

Back in the day, the Communists were rich kids, Marx the son of the leading lawyer in Trier, Engels the son of a textile manufacturer. Today the "allies" are all educated-class Gentry. Ibram X. Kendi, né Rogers, is the son of a business analyst and a tax accountant with a Ph.D from Temple University.

Back in the day the capitalists were mostly jumped-up Commoners: Rockefeller started out as a store clerk, Carnegie, son of a handloom operative, started out as a telegraph messenger. Today, Steve Jobs was the adopted son of a Coastguard mechanic.

I say that in the Allyism concept there are Three Lies:

Lie No.1: The so-called "oppressed peoples" are in fact the lower class that is particularly privileged by the rulers with diversity and inclusion and welfare-state loot and plunder.

Lie No.2: The so-called "allies" are in fact the ruling class -- oppressors by any other name -- that uses the notion of "oppressed peoples" as a political formula to justify its power.

Lie No.3: The so-called "white oppressors" are just ordinary middle-class whites that don't have any particular political power with which to oppress people. They are people that the rulers can cancel in a New York minute as "racist" if they step out of line.

In my opinion the over/under politics of Marx and Allyism Makes Things Worse. In my view, the so-called "oppressed peoples" are better understood as new migrants to the city and the wage economy that have not yet assimilated the middle-class culture of the city, by obtaining basic numeracy and literacy, adopting the middle-class culture of trust and responsibility, and surrendering to the judgment of the market. By telling these people "you was robbed" the left in fact delays the progress of lower-class people up into the middle class.

But at least it gives the allies political power. Which, I assume, was the point all along.

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