Welcome again to everybody. Make yourself at home. In the time-honoured tradition of our group, here is the weekly discussion thread.
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Do you hear of feminists that stand with capitalism?
Not really. There are people who call themselves feminists that support capitalism but they are pretenders who haven’t really understood (or even read) any feminist theory. Like “anarchists” who want to live in mad max world.
“Nobody’s free until everybody’s free” True liberation ideoligy is infectious. How can you fight for the end of oppression for those born with XX chromosomes and not feel connection to those who are oppressed because they were born with higher melanin production genes? And why should being born to poor parents limit your access to education and job prospects? and why should people who’s parents own lots of things, never have to work?
I guess it depends on how you define it, whether as principled or not, and where its roots come from in understanding the struggle. But I know there are terms for like the whitewashing of imperialism under the guise of such causes. Hillary Clinton or Kamala Harris in the US would probably be a good example of this kind of thing, where on a surface level, they support feminist messaging, but they also back the brutal capitalist and imperialist status quo. So it’s a co-opting thing.
Not too sure what you mean by this, but the US suffragettes co-opted black women into their movement until they got what they wanted, then turned on their allies.
You can never trust a settler!