Seriously, imagine being a class reductionist. I could never be one. Just the pervasiveness of racism, bigotry, misogyny, transphobia, homophobia, et al that I have personally experiened tells me that there are other dynamics that intersect with class that are very, very relevant. But sure, tell me all about how the white guy who quotes black crime stats and seeks out suburbs that are virtually all white to live in would totally be a good comrade if you could just have 15 minutes to explain class consciousness to him. Or the evangelical nut who somehow in 2021 considers transgenderism a sin and a mental illness akshully only sees is that way because of class. Go ahead.

Seriously if you see any class reductionism here just tag me, I love banning class reductionists. It's fun for me.

  • trepeeeeeman [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    it's because a lot of the left essentially uses theory as a substitute for class consciousness. people have a general understanding of historical class conflict, but because of wealth, race, education, and other segregating effects were able to opt out of any mutual struggle alongside the modern subjects of that theory.

    it's not that you would necessarily need to be an amazon worker in a warehouse to understand what is going on there, but alternative would be either commissioning your own detailed studies or doing firsthand research which generally doesn't happen. there's just a lot of social commentary built on other social commentary which is treated as theory and in turn is treated as class consciousness.