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A Class Locked in Struggle

A Class Locked in Struggle

Beyond Economic Reductionism

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Sep 06, 2024
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Morning Comrades,

I am not entirely what prompted this excursion, probably spent a little too much time digging into some US based bullshit - actually, yes, I was reading up on a newly found “communist” party in the US - which it isn’t, on the contrary, if anything its a bunch of terminally online brats centred around the Midwestern Marxist Institute Cointel Programme and other various “streamers” - I think I just got indigestion just typing that nonsense but yeah - that’s where today’s dispatch came from. With all the charlatans abound, waving flags and saying pretty words - all to fleece you of your money and sell your data to the feds - here is a little deep dive into what we are doing and how to approach reality - not in the “how to be a good communist” by Liu Shaoqui, which is well worth your time, but more in the sense of class & intersection.

A while back I wrote something down on twitter that went something like “the social question is about the rich and the poor, the national question is about oppressor and oppressed nations and the question of patriarchy is about gender. They are different and deeply related, importantly, all deal with classes locked in struggle. It does not matter if “we” decide that class refers to “direct relationship to income and sustenance” or not. What matters is “understanding” that not only economic classes make history" - and I still feel that these three pillars that directly relate to our existence, organization and work require a little deep dive, if anything, just to align oneself.

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