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People clearly care deeply about about both these things. It’s possible for the left to fight over gender politics AND working conditions.
by MattRix 5y ago
People clearly care deeply about about both these things. It’s possible for the left to fight over gender politics AND working conditions.
- emptysongglass 5y agoThe issue is that identity politics are a race to the bottom of purity politics. The amount of black you can be or whether you're LGBTQ+ enough is a spectrum that lends itself to eating your own young. Conversely, all of us are workers. We are united in the blood and sweat we offer to the increasingly well-to-do. Consuming ourselves in intra-labor factionalism while the wealthy elites feed anti-union propaganda does everything to reduce our bargaining power and our feeling of love and respect for our fellow human beings. Because at the end of the day it's not how much melanin you have in your skin or how female you feel or what terms you're using at your workplace, it's your humanity and your labor that unites us. Buddhism, which I often reference, makes much to do over the uselessness and continued suffering we bind ourselves to by the reification of concepts. We need to stop reifying those ideas which divide us and find the common in which to celebrate our closeness. There is a stark difference between lifting up and listening to women (which I am strongly for) because they are our fellow human beings in labor not because their state of being will never be understood by their male counterparts, which is often the refrain of the new far left. Class politics not identity politics.
- matheusmoreira 5y agoSure, and that's exactly what the rich corporations want. They'd rather see people fighting each other over gendered pronouns than threatening to burn the factory down due to rampant exploitation of workers.