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glitter_v0id wrote

class reductionism

Can you expand on what you mean by that? it's a term i'm unfamiliar with but if i've parsed it correctly sounds like one of my pet-hates with left discourse.

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Pop wrote

In short, it's radicals who have a "class first" approach to resolving issues, an approach that assumes that class is the foundational oppression

often with the assumption that once we deal with class the other things will be easy or will fix themselves
enough that some of them will say "we'll worry about that poc/women/gay/disabled stuff after the revolution"

You see forms of this e.g. in manarchists/brocialists saying that arguing about gender is just divisive, we should focus on class concerns

and usually this is the kind of leftism that dismisses intersectional concerns as airy-fairy sjw stuff

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glitter_v0id wrote

Yep. Those people. Those people who can't for a second see that class issues, feminist issues, race issues, gender issues, ableism issues, ALL INTERSECT and you cannot address one without addressing them all.

Unfortunately every aspect of this intersection seems to have its group who feels the others can be addressed "later".. Least common in ableism i've noticed probably because its intersection with race and gender - and by nature of these, socioeconomic class - is harder to ignore but they still exist.

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ziq wrote

"We can tackle that after the revolution" is about the cringiest thing any radical can say.

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glitter_v0id wrote

I'm genuinely unsure how you can reach this kind of radical without recognizing this intersection... it clearly happens but seeing the intersection was my tipping point.

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