So much so that I think the most important piece of class divide is how the bourgeois class divides and uses race and gender and sexuality and religion, etc to further sustain it's goals

    • Kumikommunism [they/them]
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      4 years ago

      you gotta deal with those things before

      That is most certainly not the whole point. If you'd like to "deal with racism" first, be my guest. See you in 5,000 years I guess.

      Dismantling the tools of oppression will end racism much faster than any alternative. People in developing countries are oppressed by developed countries solely through capitalist means.
      Climate change is going to harm more of those people than anything else we can predict, and that will not be solved through capitalism. So if you'd like to wait until after the earth is a burning rock to get started on the class struggle, okay. There probably won't be any brown people left.

        • Kumikommunism [they/them]
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          4 years ago

          Okay. I would call that "at the same time", not "before", but I get you now. I saw other people in this thread kind of misunderstanding the OP, and I just grouped your comment in with them, sorry. People get very weird about using "class reductionism" in a liberal way so maybe I'm on edge.

    • wtypstanaccount04 [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      We will never be able to fix racism and sexism under capitalism. Defeating capitalism won't solve these problems but will progress these issues forward. If we ignore capitalism to focus on these issues nothing will change.