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Anti-imperialism, Anti-racism & White privilege

Weather contended that their stance different from the rest of “the movement” at the time as it turned “every issue, problem, and struggle into an anti-imperialist, anti-racist struggle”. Weather puts the international proletariat at the center of their political theory. Weather further decided that all other political theories within the movement at the time that didn’t put the international proletariat at the forefront- wasn’t organizing with those who they perceived as most oppressed by imperialism- and were instead either organizing around class interests, or youth interests etc. were all “bound to lead in a racist and chauvinist direction.”  Weather’s denouncement of any other political theories of the time that weren’t siding with the international proletariat was furthered followed with accusations that the you were being “objectively racist” by not siding with the international proletariat; and that all  other political theories, not organizing around the international proletariat needed to be “smashed”.

Weather further contended that “organizing whites against their own perceived oppression” were “attempts by whites to carve out even more privilege than they already derive from the imperialist nexus.” Weather’s political theory sought to make every struggle an anti-imperialist, anti-racist struggle, out of this came their advocacy of critical concepts that would later be known as "white privilege". As Weather historian Dan Berger writes, Weather raised the question "what does it means to be a white person opposing racism and imperialism ”.