back at it with another ridiculous question. As I have been developing my personal ideology, I’ve found that I reject much of the socially progressive ideas in corpo media and twitter (conservatives call it identity politics). Stuff like abolishing the nuclear family (or pride flag on drones joke) that doesn’t look to change any economic or material reality I find I don’t agree with.
First and second wave feminism I support as they changed the material realities for women, but the push for things like gender reassignment surgery under 16 years (i wanted to be in the cia when I was this age, people change personalities quickly during their teenage years) among other socially progressive ideas (bedtime abolition and the like) seem to be far removed from any type of class struggle and even hurt the working class.
Expressing this on Twitter got me called a nazbol (of course) but am I? Does being socially conservative but economically progressive make me a redfash? I understand intersectionality and that you can be trans and poor but focusing so heavily on non class issues seems detrimental for workers, even if they get some progressive tidbits.
plz feel free to own me if I’m spitting straight crap wrote this on my phone b4 work
edit: the thoughtful genzedong comments/commenters make this community the only place I’d be willing to ask a question like this, thanks for that, and the info you share so that myself and others can be better communists 💪🇨🇳👍
Don’t be class reductionist about social issues would be my advice.
Yes a lot of problems can be tracked back to a common source but given that transphobia, homophobia, racism, discrimination against neurodivergent people etc are now systemic problems that have infested society, ignoring those individual struggles and reducing the argument back to “workers liberation is the main goal” erases and ignores those issues that workers liberation won’t fix.
I think you should listen to comrades who face the struggles you might not identify or understand. It’s their struggle not yours and they are best placed to explain the difficulties they face.
E.g. there’s homophobic communists, class awareness hasn’t removed their bigotry, it hasn’t opened their eyes to queer struggle. If anything they’ve doubled down because they have chosen to continue to ignore that particular struggle with the lense of “yeah but workers struggle solves all” and it just don’t.
In the end its not workers liberation OR any other liberation. Why can’t those struggles be included in our main goal? Essentially why not both?
They certainly don’t distract from it and while you can be as trad as you want with your own life, it’s not your place to comment or stop others living theirs and as a communist you should want liberation for all of us working class.
Don’t let this reactionary idea that minority struggle is some capitalist grift (e.g. homosexuality is bourgeois decadence) when it absolutely isn’t.
If we want to build an equal and fair society, then we can’t do that if we ignore the specific problems minority groups face. If we ignore them and plow ahead with just this reductionist “workers only” take then we create a society that’s socially as unequal for minorities as the one we live in and in turn it just replaces one status quo for another.
As another user said, be prepared to change your perception and understanding.