The ideology of the WIL is equally pathetic to its tactics and organization. The WIL denounces affirmative action and reparations to blacks just as readily as the Young Republicans - calling such demands "petit-bourgeois" because they cannot "solve the problem." Hypocritically, they have no qualms with making piecemeal economic demands that, likewise, will not ultimately solve the problem of capitalism. In attempting to seem more "working class" (although a WIL member of truly working class background is a rarity) it goes further to alienate itself from activists, black radicals, feminists, and other progressive tendencies by labelling them all "petit-bourgeois" and even "hopeless." Instead of taking the demands of these activists and linking them to the struggle for socialism, the WIL, instead, ignores all demands for justice to anything less than the working class as a whole - even though it is obvious that women, for instance, may not only be exploited as workers, but also as women. Truly, the WIL sees itself as communicating with a working class that no longer exists; thus, they rely heavily on economic slogans that have little appeal to so many workers in the commercial and service sectors. They do not compensate for this with more contemporary political demands, and so the WIL is left with an economistic flavor to it. Following in the footsteps of the Committee for a Marxist International, the WIL opposes Palestinian statehood and believes that true hope for the region lies not within the revolutionary Palestinian masses but with the Israeli working class. In fact, in all issues pertaining to self-determination, the WIL opposes secession by oppressed minorities and say that, if they were given the chance to vote on, say, the formation of an independent Palestine, they would vote against it. Along with these stances, the WIL is your typical Orthodox Trotskyist sect.