Sorry like, a backwards feudal monarchy had a communist revolution, and the former serfs only surpassed contemporary Western womens' liberation by half, instead of reaching 2021 standards in 1980. Like they only had women massively enrolled in higher education before the USA, a longstanding liberal democracy, instead of eliminating sexism right after shooting the Tsar.
To be fair, this is one of the downsides of democracy because of the threat of the tyranny of the majority.
Class analysis is a powerful tool because it shows where so many of our mutual interests overlap with each other, but it cannot alone solve issues that arise from conflicting culture, bigotry, fear, phobias, and other intra-class conflicts that don't have their roots in rationality. The only way to advance on those fronts is through social struggle and education.
Of course, I believe it's far easier to carry out that struggle under a workers government and a socialist economy than it is under capitalism, for the simple fact that capitalists will constantly stoke those divisions because they are powerful barriers to solidarity against capitalism. It's always going to be easier to fight fires when you aren't letting the arsonist continue to lighting them.
Sorry like, a backwards feudal monarchy had a communist revolution, and the former serfs only surpassed contemporary Western womens' liberation by half, instead of reaching 2021 standards in 1980. Like they only had women massively enrolled in higher education before the USA, a longstanding liberal democracy, instead of eliminating sexism right after shooting the Tsar.
To be fair, this is one of the downsides of democracy because of the threat of the tyranny of the majority.
Class analysis is a powerful tool because it shows where so many of our mutual interests overlap with each other, but it cannot alone solve issues that arise from conflicting culture, bigotry, fear, phobias, and other intra-class conflicts that don't have their roots in rationality. The only way to advance on those fronts is through social struggle and education.
Of course, I believe it's far easier to carry out that struggle under a workers government and a socialist economy than it is under capitalism, for the simple fact that capitalists will constantly stoke those divisions because they are powerful barriers to solidarity against capitalism. It's always going to be easier to fight fires when you aren't letting the arsonist continue to lighting them.