They make some gestures towards poverty as a factor when it's impacting an identity group it prioritises.
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But, on the whole, intersectionals ignore class disadvantages because they also affect straight, white men which complicates the narrative.
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Personally, I am convinced that economic &, by extension, educational privilege is the one, big, consistent factor re: systems of power.
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intersectionals are all middle and upper class - if they acknowledged class they'd need to check their privilege.
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Leading voices are academics, yes.
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you can be 'academic' and still rather less than well off and essentially working class of course.
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Yes, but you can't be terribly poor. Well, maybe, if you're exceptionally intellectually gifted, driven & resourceful.
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Oh, getting an education from a lower working class background is an exceptionally rocky path (trust me, I know! :) )
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I don't know about UK. But in France, the communist party organized philosophy cafes for workers. Still common today.
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Absolutely. The centre of the left got moved to academia and lost touch with reality.
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There was an organic rel. b/w labor movement and intellectuals, maintained by parties of the left.
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Oh yes. Raymond Williams wrote about this, didn't he?
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Well he certainly was linked to the labor movement. And he was himself from the working-class I believe.
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Anyway, I think that bourgeois academics' takeover of the left largely explains the regression we have been witnessing.
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In doing so, they reified these cultures, forgetting they were produced through relations of domination.
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The first postmodernists began studying and *celebrating * culture of the dominated.
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There was also the idea that working people (even manual laborers) could become intellectuals, without entering academia.
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Interesting thread.There was a time when leftist ideas were developed outside the academy.
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There's only two privileges. Health and wealth (class) Anyone can have both. Which, as you said, is why intersectionals ignore
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