I agree that intersectionality is broadly underutilized as a unifying analytical concept on the left. The left cannot move forward but through recognizing that Black/poor/lesbian women have worlds more to contend with than white Bernie Bros who just want gibs. But what you were saying about material conditions belies this somewhat.
Caitlyn Jenner as a very wealthy and preeminent figure will still face stigma unfortunately, but this stigma will not as a rule result in her being put out on the street or disowned by her social network or forced to endanger herself for the basic necessities of living.
And you’re right on the point about Hillary, and it applies all the same. But I think we really are talking about class in that instance, as social climbing really relates to social reproduction, another Marxian concept.
Class is reproduced from one generation to the next. But it’s not something that is ever really reflected on an epigenetic or genotypic level, unlike sex or neuropsychology. It is the machinations of the production process at the base & the cascade of resulting social relations involved that legitimize and prop up a strictly disciplinary socioeconomic hierarchy.
I agree with most of what you said. Not trying to call out all the “sickos”, but experience cannot but inform individual decision making & worldview to the extent where intersubjectivity becomes increasingly difficult. It can be unavoidable to turn inward. The relating and reflecting of personal/shared trauma is undervalued and often stigmatized in our culture, this aversion becomes psychopathy in my opinion.
Additionally, I want to say we can look and understand those “machinations of the production process”, such as the historical phenomenon of bringing bonded labor from the Slave Coast or India or elsewhere within an empire to undermine the domestic price of labor and stoke sociocultual/“racial” tension within underclasses of another place. And when we do we can see that the burdens & the bloodshed caused by these race & gender & national identity issues are almost always carried by those underclasses.
For instance, Trinidad & Tobago have an almost equal divide between East Indian descended & Afro-Caribbean populations. The racial and cultural hierarchy plays out much as you’d expect, but it’s all reflected through the prism of British Imperial history & the ways that labor was exploited in the past. That’s what’s fucked up!
Class & its nefarious stranglehold on gender works the same way in South Korea, one of the most ethnically/culturally homogeneous countries on the planet, as it does in Papua New Guinea and America. Women have it the toughest.
America only has the added benefit/curse of observing how these historical social/cultural/gender/economic divides get heated up in the modern crucible of internationally liberalized capital flows.
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I agree that intersectionality is broadly underutilized as a unifying analytical concept on the left. The left cannot move forward but through recognizing that Black/poor/lesbian women have worlds more to contend with than white Bernie Bros who just want gibs. But what you were saying about material conditions belies this somewhat.
Caitlyn Jenner as a very wealthy and preeminent figure will still face stigma unfortunately, but this stigma will not as a rule result in her being put out on the street or disowned by her social network or forced to endanger herself for the basic necessities of living.
And you’re right on the point about Hillary, and it applies all the same. But I think we really are talking about class in that instance, as social climbing really relates to social reproduction, another Marxian concept.
Class is reproduced from one generation to the next. But it’s not something that is ever really reflected on an epigenetic or genotypic level, unlike sex or neuropsychology. It is the machinations of the production process at the base & the cascade of resulting social relations involved that legitimize and prop up a strictly disciplinary socioeconomic hierarchy.
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I agree with most of what you said. Not trying to call out all the “sickos”, but experience cannot but inform individual decision making & worldview to the extent where intersubjectivity becomes increasingly difficult. It can be unavoidable to turn inward. The relating and reflecting of personal/shared trauma is undervalued and often stigmatized in our culture, this aversion becomes psychopathy in my opinion.
Additionally, I want to say we can look and understand those “machinations of the production process”, such as the historical phenomenon of bringing bonded labor from the Slave Coast or India or elsewhere within an empire to undermine the domestic price of labor and stoke sociocultual/“racial” tension within underclasses of another place. And when we do we can see that the burdens & the bloodshed caused by these race & gender & national identity issues are almost always carried by those underclasses.
For instance, Trinidad & Tobago have an almost equal divide between East Indian descended & Afro-Caribbean populations. The racial and cultural hierarchy plays out much as you’d expect, but it’s all reflected through the prism of British Imperial history & the ways that labor was exploited in the past. That’s what’s fucked up!
Class & its nefarious stranglehold on gender works the same way in South Korea, one of the most ethnically/culturally homogeneous countries on the planet, as it does in Papua New Guinea and America. Women have it the toughest.
America only has the added benefit/curse of observing how these historical social/cultural/gender/economic divides get heated up in the modern crucible of internationally liberalized capital flows.
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