A Rant About Progressive Stack

For those not familiar progressive stack is the idea that speakers at open forums be ordered based on their race, gender, LGBT status etc. rather than on simply the order in which those speakers signed up. Higher priority is given to those from marginalized groups. This, along with trigger warnings and cultural appropriation, is one of the many widely mocked abortions of modern liberalism that crawled out of the pet cemetery of academia and now helps strangle any backlash to the forces of capital. Progressive stack is liberalism, it is utterly incompatible with socialism because the most important category for marginalization (class) is by design not accounted for.

We know what happens when progressive stack is implemented because we watched it in 2011. Occupy Wall Street was widely popular and threatened to become a mass movement based around the one simple principle of breaking up the too big to fail banks. Somebody (I believe the CIA) came up with the idea of using progressive stack during Occupy meetings and suddenly the forces of conservatism didn’t have to engage with a mass class based movement, they could instead continue to comfortably fight the culture wars. Middle class people of all political affiliations love the culture wars because the culture wars do not threaten their material position. I include self identifying “socialist” NYC based PHD students in the category of middle class.

This is relevant now as we are entering a very dangerous place in the Trump presidency. These abhorrent actions with regards to separating children from their parents are aimed directly at energizing the white nationalist and nativist base in America ahead of the upcoming elections. New York City Democratic Socialists of America have used this moment where their opposition is most needed to instead cement their irrelevance with the implementation of progressive stack. When the burgeoning socialist movement in America chooses to marginalize themselves and embrace liberalism vulnerable people are forced to depend on a deeply corrupt Democratic Party to protect them. I fear for their odds.