nobody said that. but socialism is a prerequisite to eradicating systemic inequalities. the only "solutions" possible under capitalism amount to allowing token members of oppressed classes into the ruling class (contingent on their upholding those systems of oppression)
I'm not anti-socialist, for the record. I'm just saying socialism won't magically fix racism, sexism, suppression of queer people.
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I wouldn't even disagree. But this does extend on Marx' concept of what a class is, which is determined by economy only. That's not classical marxism you're talking about.
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okay, and general relatively isn't "classical physics" because it wasn't developed by Newton. dialectical materialism evolves and develops with time and evidence just like any science
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I wish you were right, but this thread started with someone calling for orthodox marxism and against intersectionality.
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that is a dramatic misrepresentation of what she said
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It's not, really. But I'm open to consider clarification.
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Socialism does not aim to ~fix one thing~ so much as it is INTERTWINED with them. Good socialism addresses these oppressive structures THROUGHOUT its process. It's not an alternative to individual solutions to these, it is a *framework for integrating these struggles*.
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"True scotsman" fallacy. Socialism is originally about economics and class struggle. That's the "Hauptwiderspruch". Other inequalities are "Nebenwiderspruch", and somehow magically solved by addressing the "Hauptwiderspruch".
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A framework for integrating *all* inequalities, including, but not limited to economic inequality: there's intersectionality.
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