What if I said I don’t care about your gender or even if you are trans, I just want working class emancipation and if that includes individuals trying to become the gender they feel they are/are supposed to be, then it’s my duty as a comrade to support them. :trans-hammer-sickle:
I know that this comes from a good place, but even if socialism could be achieved tomorrow, transphobia and other forms of bigotry would still exist. We have to actively oppose and root out transphobia, both in wider society, and especially in our own communities.
Opposition to and the eradication of transphobia should absolutely be part of any program for workers emancipation, but we shouldn't make the mistake of thinking that such a program would, itself, stomp out transphobia.
You’re absolutely correct. I don’t mean to sound like I don’t want transphobia squashed out. Transphobs are reactionaries that don’t serve a place in the revolution.
I don’t mean to come off rude or unsupportive. Just makes me mad that people are concerned with how other want to express themselves.
Liberation must come with the destruction of every intersectional axis of oppression. You cannot emancipate a class if members of it are still oppressed by other mechanisms.
If many of these means of oppression are rooted in capitalism and the reactionary nature of it, wouldn’t the over throw of capitalism help to eliminate them? I’m sure they go hand in hand, but it’s worth to think about.
I guess my understanding is that all of these issues are rooted deeply in the inherent inequality and contradictions within capitalism, and by the overthrow of it many of these contradictions will die away on their own. But of course that’s why things like a vanguard party exists to stamp it out where it is found as well.
What if I said I don’t care about your gender or even if you are trans, I just want working class emancipation and if that includes individuals trying to become the gender they feel they are/are supposed to be, then it’s my duty as a comrade to support them. :trans-hammer-sickle:
I know that this comes from a good place, but even if socialism could be achieved tomorrow, transphobia and other forms of bigotry would still exist. We have to actively oppose and root out transphobia, both in wider society, and especially in our own communities.
Opposition to and the eradication of transphobia should absolutely be part of any program for workers emancipation, but we shouldn't make the mistake of thinking that such a program would, itself, stomp out transphobia.
You’re absolutely correct. I don’t mean to sound like I don’t want transphobia squashed out. Transphobs are reactionaries that don’t serve a place in the revolution. I don’t mean to come off rude or unsupportive. Just makes me mad that people are concerned with how other want to express themselves.
Liberation must come with the destruction of every intersectional axis of oppression. You cannot emancipate a class if members of it are still oppressed by other mechanisms.
If many of these means of oppression are rooted in capitalism and the reactionary nature of it, wouldn’t the over throw of capitalism help to eliminate them? I’m sure they go hand in hand, but it’s worth to think about.
The overthrow of capitalism is a necessary condition for liberation but it is not the only condition necessary.
I guess my understanding is that all of these issues are rooted deeply in the inherent inequality and contradictions within capitalism, and by the overthrow of it many of these contradictions will die away on their own. But of course that’s why things like a vanguard party exists to stamp it out where it is found as well.