Imnecomrade

You beat me to it, dammit.

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Imnecomrade @lemmygrad.ml 4mo ago

I've been listening to my Capital audiobook while driving a truck for my job. This book is hard and dense to listen to as an audiobook, especially for me as I tend to daydream. It's essentially listening to Marx explain his economic theories as mathematical proofs. I'm going to have to read it on paper at some point.

I wonder why there are so many sects from Marx's work, though. Lenin had the right idea. Marx was bashing on reformists, "trots", and bougie economists across his work, and a couple hundred years later a lot of people still believe there's any chance of doing anything short of revolution.

Imnecomrade @lemmygrad.ml 5mo ago

Deeply satanic country

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Imnecomrade @lemmygrad.ml 5mo ago

But I have since changed my mind after I saw for myself gender abolitionists who are ultimately transphobic, and they didn’t come to this conclusion by accident. Can we say that they are only using gender abolition to confirm their transphobic views?

I imagine these people are the same or close to those who say "they don't see color".

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Imnecomrade @lemmygrad.ml 5mo ago

That’s why I don’t think it necessarily follows that gender itself is a product of oppression, which also puts into question whether it should be or will be abolished/wither away (not exactly the same thing for some abolitionists, but not all). The premise of the essay is that gender can exist without an oppressive structure. It also means it doesn’t automatically follow that abolishing gender (in any way) will also destroy the oppressive structure built around it and the answer must be found somewhere else for proper praxis.

In reference to my previous comment, by gender "withering away" in a communist state, I don't mean gender will not exist, just as race won't disappear. I mean the distinction between class won't be really relevant anymore. A communist state will likely be in the distant future, a society we can only predict under science fiction. I imagine technology, social relations, cultural and social norms will evolve to a point we may not be able to perceive very well today. I imagine that we may have the ability to change our DNA, or maybe go through transhumanism and become cyborgs/machines, etc. The concept of gender may not be as relevant because people will be able to easily change to whatever they are comfortable with using future technology, and there will be cultural acceptance of everyone. There won't be a denial of trans/gender-fluid/non-conforming people, but it may be ubiquitous that the distinction and class differences/exploitation between people won't exist as it does today. Before then and when we are still developing in the early stages of socialism, we won't be "abolishing" or "withering away" gender, nor will gender completely not exist.

As for now, I agree that so-called "gender abolition" is irrelevant and out of scope at this time.

Imnecomrade @lemmygrad.ml 5mo ago

Not disagreeing, but did you watch the video? It's not what you expect.

spoiler

The video shows various statistics about the political and systematic violence occurring in the US, and in the skit James is kidnapped by ICE agents after spying on him making an educational video showing dissent over the Israeli genocide and settler occupation funded by the US and dissent over US imperialism and austerity.

Imnecomrade @lemmygrad.ml 5mo ago

I had a similar thought that you put into words better than I would have done. I have seen "gender abolition" in a Marxist sense as the result of achieving a classless society where class (in any form, including gender) no longer exists and class exploitation is eliminated.

Imnecomrade @lemmygrad.ml 5mo ago

I did the same when I was a child. Checks out.

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Imnecomrade @lemmygrad.ml 6mo ago

Yeah it's logarithmic because nobody should need over $2 million. You are stealing exponentially at billions of dollars.

Imnecomrade @lemmygrad.ml 6mo ago

I need oil. I can't stop drinking oil. I can't stop drinking oil! I just can't stop! I can't stop drinking crude oil. You know the black stuff that comes in barrels? I can't stop drinking it. I just can't. It's tantalizing. It's addicting. It is a delicacy! I love it! I can't stop drinking oil. Crude oil! I can't stop guzzling it, gulping it down! I can't stop drinking crude oil! giggles

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Imnecomrade @lemmygrad.ml 6mo ago

I'm surprised China is still only 2nd in computing power, trailing behind bumfuck US. How is the US still first on this metric, and how much longer?

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Imnecomrade @lemmygrad.ml 6mo ago

I've been wanting an Ushanka. I already have a silver Lenin bust.