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Hm. I’m sceptical of culture war in general. I dont condone to bourgois feminism so I dont condone to bourgois autism liberation either.
Imo it is used to turn the working class against each other. Same as the “all men?” question. Of course I’m being unfairly oppressed because I’m autistic but first and foremost because I am of the working class.
I’m working on my own podcast rn and it is going to touch on my autism but it will definitely view it through the lens of working class liberation aka “autistic people will need to free themselves from oppression but not by pushing other working class people further down.”
Well, instead of “bourgeois Autism liberation,” let’s have proletarian Autism liberation.
They’re not mutually exclusive.
Take out the bad and put the good in.
Thats not so easy. Neither is womens proletarian liberation, black proletarian liberation, etc.
Especially because libs are using it against us. There is nothing to gain by joining lib movements for its own sake. The only way is to steer them hard left towards mutual liberation of the working class.
For example: As an autistic person I need the break room to be quiet to have a proper break. My colleagues (the majority) want to have nice chats to feel better during the break. Both our interests are valid and bourgois autism liberation will try and make my interests more valid because poor baby needs help uwu. But MUCH more than a silent break room, I need to leave exploitative working conditions under capitalism.
The sheer unpenetrable problem is that bourgois culture war pushes us against each other and prompts a reactionary response by colleagues to keep both from uniting against the common enemy.
Therefore, there can be no autistic liberation without working class liberation.
Because once I dont have to fear death through starvation or exposure, I wont have to work at a place without a silent room for me to work in anymore.
Make sense?
Uh, the allistics should accommodate you though (same way we accommodate them all the time).
Nvm, I can tell you consider Autistics to be infants and infantilize us as a result; perhaps I should just block if you’re going to downplay the oppression that Autistics experience at the hands of neurotypicals as infantile.
(inb4 “I am AN autistic person too” excuse)
Typical reactionary response. I do understand though that autism has not gotten the proper marx treatment yet, at least afaik.
Maybe someone can help building the proper dialectical materialist analysis.
Autism is based on the brain, which makes it real. Outside conditions are what they are and need to be addressed in a non idealist manner.
The first reason why an austistic person is not okay in groups is because they are different from the rest in perception, interests and often opinions and way of presenting them. This gets put on steroids due to capitalism individualizing people and breaking up groups. While that hits everyone, it hits those the most that already have a hard time fitting in.
Where bougois individualism makes the wrong conclusion (eg others need to accommodate us) marxism imo asks us to point to conditions that need changing. The conditions are for example the threat of death due to being ousted by a group. This would not happen in a medieval world for exmaple as the autistics brought a unique perspective and had enough slow time to calm down. This would therefore also work very well in a socialist model as the need for constant maximizing of profit would fall and the constant need for othering would fall as well due to absence of competition.
Anyone with better marxism skills correct me but I think being autistic is going to be very small an issue if we abolish capitalism. I say this hopeful because currently i’m barely able to work due to the aforementioned.
The podcast is a bit, well, lib (for example, it was a bit less harsh on figures like Thomas Jefferson, though it definitely criticized him at least, but that was early on in the podcast series when they were just getting started and less radical).
They’re anti-capitalist and pro-socialist, though not communist; still, you will get something out of it if you listen to at least a couple of episodes.
