WTF does feminism have to do with socialism and neo-marxism?
Radical feminism uses the same dialectic approach as marxism:
- Both divide humanity in two arbitrary groups, with one group systematically oppressed by the other (workers vs. bourgeoisie, women vs. men).
- Both hold that individuals are primarily defined by the group they belong to, and that any individual’s instinctive loyalty is to the group with the proviso that members of the oppressing group only favour members of their own group, whereas members of the oppressed group want the best for all of humanity.
- Both feel a better society will arise when the perceived roles of the groups will be reversed. In other words, the currently oppressed group is morally better than the oppressing group, and will not oppress the defeated group once in power.
- Both redefine and create language (comrade, sister, class war, rape culture, entitlement, etc.) and develop pseudo-philosophy and pseudo-science around their core dogmas.
- Both hold that those they identify as members of the oppressing group cannot have valid criticism of the core beliefs. In fact, criticism is seen as proof of membership of the oppressing group.
- Both believe that purported past injustices against members of the oppressed group (even if the circumstances were different and the “members†of those days did not perceive their situation as injust) justify retaliatory action against living members of the oppressing group (even if these individuals personally never did anything “oppressiveâ€). The group is more important than the individual.
- Both believe a self-defined victim status intitles them to the moral high-ground, and both believe that doubting their victim status is the same as oppression.
- Both believe the members of the oppressing group are aware of their privileged status and maliciously protect and promote the injust privileges of their group.
- Both ignore evidence showing their worldview is too simplistic.
Basically, both are a non-religious expressions of the group-building behavioural patterns that allow humans to build large, cooperative societies. While in earlier days the grouping was based on genetic relationships (tribe vs the rest) and used religion, Marx used the worker/bourgeois division and socialism. This doesn’t mean there is no good in socialism or religion, just that the ideology+group pattern is a very powerful organisational tool. One only has to look at history to see it occur over and over (mormonism, scientology, moonies, companies such as Apple, etc.). It becomes problematic when the group claims universality and moral authority over those not formally part of the us/them divide (this is the case for religions such as christianity and islam, or political ideologies such as marxism).
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