>>2433369>if most people in Europe and the US like LGBTQ+ people and don't want to turn woman into baby making machines, why is "working with what we have" used as a excuse to accept rightoid ideas?Because people using phrases like "working with what we have" or "meeting people where they're at" to justify promoting or not combating right-wing positions never genuinely cared about where the working class is actually at. They are right-opportunists (revisionists) there to peddle conservatism and fascism as "left" or even "revolutionary", and to justify it lie through their teeth about some ephemeral "silent majority" that actually agrees with everything they say but are somehow too scared of Queers and women to speak openly. It's the political equivalent of a high schooler claiming to have a girlfriend who lives in another city.
>>2433527>just a more modern version of class collaborationI wouldn't even call it "more modern". "Multipolarism" is essentially the same shit the Kautskyite revisionists in the Second International were using to justify taking sides in the First World War. The only difference is that now these revisionists have been forced to adopt pseudo-Marxist-Leninist language, as the historic debate on the nature of imperialism has long been settled. But the opportunist horseshit around "the masses really support X over Communist positions, therefore Communists should compromise their positions to adopt X" is identical.
>The people support the wars of bourgeois states, therefore we must support the war.>The war weakens the dominant imperialist states, therefore the war has some proletarian character.>The people support the nation-state, therefore we must defend it.>The people support the bourgeois colonial project, therefore we must look at the good and bad of colonies.>The people support Chinese exclusion because they take their jobs, therefore we must support exclusion.>The people view Blacks as strike breakers, we must uphold segregation/apartheid.The addition of "Queer people are bourgeois" and "monopoly-capitalist theocracies with imperial ambitions are progressive because they'll weaken the dominant imperialist state" are just another regurgitation of the same tired opportunist phrases by the same tired revisionisms.