Also, the noisiest promoters of class politics in the 90s - when I was getting involved in political activism - were Vulgar Marxists. The last bastions of the 1950s version of the labour movement. Some of whom were saying disappointingly regressive things about our allies in movements focused on women's liberation, indigenous rights, and so on. Defending the CCP's brutal occupation of Tibet, even as they (quite rightly) condemned Indonesia's equally brutal occupation of Timor Leste.
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