I see the term a lot, but I don't fully understand its context. Impossible to google due to libs coopting the language in unintelligible articles.
Thank you for the help.
I see the term a lot, but I don't fully understand its context. Impossible to google due to libs coopting the language in unintelligible articles.
Thank you for the help.
This is a bad take. Class reductionism is a real problem among many leftists. Libs will co-opt anything sure, but a lot of white leftists will ignore the extra challenges faced by people of color in favor of only talking about class. This is something we must fight against as well and take an intersectional approach to struggle.
look, I'm sure this happens, but when you ask for examples everyone points to Stupidpol. those people aren't leftists.
most people throwing around the term "class reductionist" understand class as just another identity, which it very much isn't, so when leftists talk about class ideas that go beyond identity it's interpreted as "this person won't acknowledge my struggle because of their less-oppressed identity".
it's very much adopting the language of the enemy to internally combat a tendency of questionable prevalence
Okay here's an example: I used to be class reductionist. I have since been educated. No I was not a stupidpol person, I just bought too much into the "rising tide lifts all boats" mindset.
sure, okay. but the term started out as a slur against anything left of socdem, not an internal marxist critique of people who don't understand why "class" is not an identity
therefore we should not take seriously the idea that there is some kind of faction of "class reductionists" within the left that we need to look out for. it's just baby leftists who don't understand Marx yet.