Watch the whole video before commenting. As I’ve expressed in the past, I don’t self-identify as a "leftist" because I believe it's too broad to meaningfully...
You’ve never witnessed a marxist-leninist or a traditionalist anarchist say that feminists or anti-racists are dividing our struggles and we should all unite as a class and then after the great revolution we can tackle other issues? Lucky you ;)
No it’s not a strawman argument: it’s an actual argument used in certain circles. If you don’t know such people, lucky you. To be fair, at least in anarchist circles i feel like the past 20y have evolved this notion a lot: intersectional anarchism used to be on the margin but is now a core part of anarchist organizations (except maybe for unions).
Well… I have been accused of class-reductionism myself, so I guess I am biased to not see mild forms of that as promoting leftist-unity but rather a reasonable objection to some types of leftist infighting.
You’ve never witnessed a marxist-leninist or a traditionalist anarchist say that feminists or anti-racists are dividing our struggles and we should all unite as a class and then after the great revolution we can tackle other issues? Lucky you ;)
Thats a bit of a strawman of both but ok
No it’s not a strawman argument: it’s an actual argument used in certain circles. If you don’t know such people, lucky you. To be fair, at least in anarchist circles i feel like the past 20y have evolved this notion a lot: intersectional anarchism used to be on the margin but is now a core part of anarchist organizations (except maybe for unions).
WWP, PSL, FRSO, Redfightback say hello intersectionality
Well… I have been accused of class-reductionism myself, so I guess I am biased to not see mild forms of that as promoting leftist-unity but rather a reasonable objection to some types of leftist infighting.
I think it’s not binary between “unity” and “infighting”. We can probably recognize that we have some common agenda as well as disagreements :)