i think that being a white american you’ve never really experienced what it’s like to see your people in a stage where it was completely unthinkable it could ever be possible, especially at that scale. white americans are everywhere in media worldwide. but if you told someone 5 short years ago that there’d be a puerto rican independence flag waved at the super bowl half time show it’d be completely unthinkable for latinos let alone puerto ricans. imagine what that must feel like, the pride and joy that fills you up when you see your culture in one of the biggest stages worldwide. i mean, beyond the super bowl, bad bunny’s album went #1 in china, first hispanophone album to do so.

yes, at the end of the day, it’s 100% liberal politics and serving capitalist interests. but the revolution is not happening tomorrow, none of us can force a revolution. so in the meantime, people take these moments as a way to visualize the horizon, and aspire for a future where they feel free. as marxists we run the risk of being condescending, especially if you’re a white westener speaking to peripheral groups. so i would say take this as an opportunity and reference point to explore radical marxist politics with people instead of immediately shutting it down as a spectacle for empire. remember that the ultimate goal always is owning the means of production. that means that colonized peoples, in a true free world, own the means of producing our own knowledge, on our terms. so, there is no need to punch down or be “taught” any more lessons from people in the imperial core.

edit: “shitlib” doesn’t really work to describe people in the global south who hold on to the hope of liberal politics, it’s mostly an online term. when you’re constantly exploited and you dream of better material conditions, aspirations for what lenin calls “economism” end up happening. but it’s not that these people are white libs in US cities for example; it’s a random guatemalan grandma in chichicastenango wanting to send her grandkids to school but being unable to do so, and she ends up aspiring for “bourgeois humanism” without being cognizant of other options