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Traditional US Marxists have a witty theory about the causes of the death of the left: after 1968, the new US and Western left emerged and became immersed in Vietnam and the Third World movements and social justice movements of race and gender and forgot to build socialism in the West, and instead built neoliberalism. Based on this, the traditional Marxist will not have a friendly smile when talking with a Palestinian, but will come and say coldly: if it is proven to us that your case does not bring the world closer to achieving socialism, then we do not care about you. On the contrary, as long as there is no Leninist party ruling the United States, we will help return you, you in the Third World, to the trap of neocolonialism.

There's some stuff in here that I think hasn't translated well across cultural and linguistic barriers - it switches from "Traditional Marxists" to "Marxists" to "Leninists" and in all cases seems to be referring to a specific tendency in the US, which presumably would be understood to a Palestinian audience.

It's describing a completely chauvinistic Marxist tendency which rejects everything except building socialism for Americans as a distraction, which I'm not sure accurately describes any existing party right now. I'd be curious if it's any clearer with more context given by debates in the Palestinian left, further articles from the same publication, etc. that have described the specific groups that make up this tendency.

I've no doubt people like this exist, I've seen their opinions (especially among European "socialists"), but I can't map them to any major group in the US I'm aware of today (probably largely because the US Marxist left is mostly nonexistent). Possibly this is an academic tendency which, as I said, might have been discussed in past articles.

The era that began with the election of Donald Trump as president of the United States and ended after the Al-Aqsa Flood was the golden era of social justice movements. It was the ideal era for taking moral positions that might not have been easy everywhere and at all times but were exceedingly easy within their bubbles. This was the era that popularized the transformation of the Palestinian struggle into a “social justice cause” between oppressor and oppressed “adversaries,” thus ripping it from the context of colonial genocide.

Absolutely no lies detected, goddamn.

This optimism leads us to refrain from criticizing a fundamental enemy on the list of enemies, simply because they seem to be kind and feminist, or because they are a complex genderless being, or merely because they are a “colleague” in the professional administrative class. This enemy we are discussing is the gang of Europeans who have been sitting on our chests for decades—excluding the genuine sympathizers—those who want to “teach” us civilization and humanity, and see the Arab woman not as human and equal, but through a pathological lens due to their belief in European moral superiority.

Very true, there's a strong current of condescension among western "feminists" when discussing the Arab world.

In 2019, the year that the force of intersectional feminism emerged in Palestine, I attended one of the meetings of the gender support programs in Ramallah. During this meeting, the European director of one of the international institutions took the floor and warned us with contempt and superiority: “Palestinian men must stand with us in supporting women or stand aside.” Today we are witnessing the dire genocidal consequences after a group of Palestinian men in the resistance factions rejected the Europeans’ orders to stand aside.