but this framing of left and right is backwards. macpherson sounds more like marx than avi lewis does, here. marx would not let special interest groups that represent petite bourgeoisie economic concerns and are focused on non-economic issues overpower the economic rights of the proletariat class. avi lewis sounds more like a red tory type conservative, who is protecting the interests of the immigrant subset of the petite bourgeoisie against the populist demands of proletariat workers.
it's not really the contemporary pseudo-left's fault, as they are inheriting framing left to them by the orwellian movements that developed out of the "new left" in the 1960s, and which sought to redefine the left in orwellian language. however, the complete irrelevance of the contemporary pseudo-left in the lives of proletariat voters, who have subsequently turned to conservatives or liberals that do no represent their economic interests, is giving the ndp the choice to determine whether it wants to abandon it's historical position as a sanctioned proletariat opposition, or whether it wants to become the mouthpiece of an immigrant subset of the petite bourgeoisie, which is what it has increasingly become since the death of jack layton.
the so-called racialized groups being spoken of are not struggling or oppressed minorities in canada and in most cases have never been, as they only began entering the country after changes to immigration in the 1960s, and have little to no history in canada as substantive entities in the pre-modern era. over the last ten to fifteen years, the ndp has attempted to position itself as the party of educated immigrants, who delusionally see themselves as marginalized groups, but are in truth privileged groups with high incomes and in many cases have special rights that the rest of the population does not. this premise that the proletariat is increasingly made up of racialized groups is actually racist, as it's based on racial assumptions that are rooted in american culture and not upheld by canadian economic data; the ndp's attempt to reach out to what it assumes are racialized groups but are actually privileged groups, because it is a racist party, has led it to become a mouthpiece of this subset of the bourgeoisie that was not born in canada. it then continues to delude itself that it's representing oppressed racialized minorities instead of privileged bourgeois immigrant groups when challenged on this point, largely because it's beholden to the funding it receives from wealthy immigrants. the result is that it's lost party status, as it is simultaneously abandoned by the proletariat and the groups it is trying to reach out to, which are predictably voting in favour of their own class interests, which are bourgeois and not proletariat. it might get wiped out soon altogether, leaving the proletariat as disenfranchised, and destabilizing the base of canadian society.