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The_Sodapop_Jesus🔻🇵🇸🇸🇩🇨🇩's avatar

Class consciousness without intersectionality is class reductionism

Intersectionality without class consciousness is identity politics

The issue at-least here in the US is not the left caring about all forms of oppression it is the liberal democrats(the centrists) using these issues and their absolute bare minimum bandaid solutions as a carrot to shut people up without actually addressing route causes

Is race a social construct created by the ruling class to keep us divided? Yes it is, but that does not suddenly mean that the oppression of people who have been marginalized is not real or is any less important or that they should need to just get over it because we swear it’ll be better once we only focus on this one division. It’s easy for those of us that are white working class men to brush off everything else accept the class struggle but you are absolutely wrong for doing so

The major issue here is that we exclusively and purposefully ignore actual class analysis in our society but all of these issues and all of the oppression we are seeing is connected and every facet of it does matter

Sorry I’m not a writer nor am I very articulate thank you for your work

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Ryan Ward's avatar

Masterful analysis. Thank you so much. I’ve been struggling to articulate my own feelings on this for a while. I was introduced to the class-first angle by Adolph Reed and I resonate strongly with a lot of his ideas but can also see how a myopic focus on class destroys any chance to build coalitions. And a lot of what you said about race and racism reminds me of Karen Field’s take in Racecraft in that class exploitation is the terrain over which racism moves.

I had never connected identity politics specifically with neoliberal moralism and individualism. That was a huge connection for me.

Thanks a million for this incredible insightful read.

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