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Middle class liberal feminists make this argument all the time: “I am being sexualised anyway, so I may as well make money from it” this is a terrible argument, why are you not fighting sexualisation, harassment and rape? We all have to fight it. Do not give in to patriarchy. Do not be its tool!

class consciousness is kind of a burden sometimes like, what do you mean i have very little chances of rising above my station in this lifetime because i have no generational wealth and capital ? what do you mean ill work till the day i die, wail in misery and not enjoy the fruit of my labor ? sucks :(

We realize that the liberation of all oppressed peoples necessitates the destruction of the political-economic systems of capitalism and imperialism as well as patriarchy. We are socialists because we believe that work must be organized for the collective benefit of those who do the work and create the products, and not for the profit of the bosses. Material resources must be equally distributed among those who create these resources. We are not convinced, however, that a socialist revolution that is not also a feminist and anti-racist revolution will guarantee our liberation.

The Combahee River Collective, “Section 2: What We Believe,” The Combahee Statement, 1977, (included in How We Get Free: Black Feminism and The Combahee River Collective, ed. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Haymarket Press, 2017, pp. 19-20).

Is he dissing land lords???

losing my mind over this