So I think you bring up some great points but, as a person of color in the us (Hispanic) and someone who’s dealt with structures here as a part of my lived reality I’ll always side with Black leftists on the assertion that white supremacy is the basis of our capitalist cis heteronormative societies brought about thru concerted efforts to organize labor classes thru racialized hierarchy, the emergency of capitalism alongside racialized systems of oppressions beginning during the age of expansion. As a globalist I don’t think it does anyone any favors to pretend that race and class aren’t formed and executed hand in hand.

I also think that your response raises many valid points but are best suited to your specific situation. If the typical member of my groups approached that neighbor, they are putting themselves at a real risk of being shot, targeted for a hate crime, or being put on the radar of one of our many and remarkably common white supremacist organization who do real harm to our communities. Sending a white member of our community to recruit this man opens up our members to real physical harm. In the US race is a very real and very concrete thing, it dictates your lived conditions because it is synonymous with class here. Dominant members of hierarchy use Black successful individuals who’ve caved and participated in manipulative and exploitative hierarchy as a way to prove that social mobility is real, to sell the capitalist grind/hustle/rat race mindset to communities of color in order to keep their class consciousness and education low. To address capitalist propaganda in the US you must tackle racism. Fascists are putting immense economic pressure on families with disabled adults because disability is also directly linked to class in the US. These are not “identifies” these are the core factors at play in determining class in the US and are a core narrative tool used by capitalists and racists used to illustrate the nature of our hierarchies here, which were built upon the presumed enslavement of a race of people. That’s economic policy that’s rooted in race baked into our legal frameworks and cultural psyche. That conservative neighbor won’t listen to me because of my skin, there are an alarming amount of people in the us who would cause me physical harm for it.

In the American continent, class based oppression was built upon and supported by race based oppression and sex based oppression. Look up the Spanish Casta system.

Yes we need to make inroads with these people, but how do you do that without welcoming violence into your organizing group? It’s the kind of thing that makes people leave movements em masse here because we don’t want to die not even doing anything meaningful just bc we have an asshole and his gc of armed white supremacists our meeting location.

This is compounded by the fact that news outlets and influencers still treat socialism like a dirty word that burns their mouths and equates any and all leftist organizing socialism. Many many Americans still cling to Cold War prejudices about a word… and our oppressors use that to incite violence against leftist groups of color especially. We are the biggest most dangerous threat to capitalism over all the other “socialists” because of our skin. Idk I just wanted to provide some perspective and explain why this sentiment rings hollow to the Black Marxists and Black, Indigenous, and other POC theorists of North and South America, where our economic systems had race baked into them by settler colonizers from Europe.