Post Ar0RYQBYSf7K3c84mG by hllizi@hespere.de
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(DIR) Post #Ar0QGO4ZTfCIL2hQzg by ErikUden@mastodon.de
2025-02-11T10:18:22Z
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There's no systemic issue, it's just that problems with... preventing climate change, gaining back our right to repair, shipwrecking, social justice, exploitation of the southern hemisphere, global warfare, increased environmental disasters, falling real wages, nationalism, car-based infrastructure, grifts, stochastic terrorism, queerphobia, artificial intelligence (including its “art”), racism, the cost of living crisis, erasure of women & queers in history, net neutrality, the defunding of public infrastructure, insider trading, the media literacy crisis, the militarization of the police, religious fundamentalism, income inequality, lobbyism, exploding burn-out and depression rates, hyperinflation, tax evasion, not crediting correctly, the gig economy, toxic masculinity, disinformation, crypto scams, femicides, neoliberalism, polarization, islamophobia, global surveillance, plagiarism, crime, gamer gate, healthcare systems, anti-immigration rhetoric, the commodification of yourself, planned obsolescence, media and moral panics, fentanyl crisis, fascism, brain implants, union busting, loss of abortion rights, homelessness, the atomization of the individual, police brutality, imperialism, white washing, reoccurring economic collapses, (neo)colonialism, mass shootings, anti-vax groups, (climate) refugees, sex & human trafficking...all just happened or got worse, individually, with no connection to one another, at the same time.
(DIR) Post #Ar0QKDhlxyNNLFraV6 by ErikUden@mastodon.de
2025-02-11T10:19:03Z
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Don't worry about it and fight all of these problems at their respected front instead of trying to find one root cause or combining factor in all of them, because there clearly is none. These are entirely and exclusively individual battlegrounds, and the people causing these issues also always, and exclusively, choose to cause one of them, as there's no larger incentive structure through say, for example, an economic system that would lead to this happening.
(DIR) Post #Ar0QkKs1wpYx5u78lM by dianasusanti@mastodon.social
2025-02-11T10:23:46Z
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@ErikUden It's superstructural problem actually, everywhere.
(DIR) Post #Ar0R40kmS4fMUi6ZqC by ErikUden@mastodon.de
2025-02-11T10:27:19Z
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As much as I'm joking here, I'm still heavily against a rhetoric within leftist circles that goes something like... “Why should we care about feminism? When the revolution comes and all classes are abolished, the oppression of women will simply cease to exist...” because that's just both historically and culturally not true. There's no “side-conflict” and “main conflict”. Such rhetoric usually often comes from people who are themselves privileged and not a minority in anything (cishet white men). While I am in favor of combining these issues and seeing capitalism either as the root cause or catalyst in them, I am also for analyzing each problem in its peculiarity.The patriarchy existed before a capitalist economic system, so did racism, colonialism and war.Capitalism was always open to these forms of discrimination and oppression, which is why it could be adopted and transitioned to so easily, yet it shaped and reproduced these problems in a different way, justified them in its own form under a new banner.
(DIR) Post #Ar0RGdY62MlUI7C0HI by LvNoctva@mastodon.social
2025-02-11T10:29:36Z
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@ErikUden absolutely agree 👏🏼
(DIR) Post #Ar0RYQBYSf7K3c84mG by hllizi@hespere.de
2025-02-11T10:32:47Z
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@ErikUden It's also not like the end of capitalism or whatever it is turning into atm is visible at the horizon. So yeah, it sound pretty privileged to declare that some peoples plight will just have to wait until after that.
(DIR) Post #Ar0Rg9rd1mNxkoUwMK by ErikUden@mastodon.de
2025-02-11T10:34:14Z
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People of color are discriminated against in the name of business and profit, so are women. Cultural stereotypes, including the stay-at-home wife, inside of the nuclear family, reproduced as a necessity to drive up individual consumption as part of our atomization, loss of society and culture. New culture and anything that doesn't fit within those tight boundaries, such as queers, are hence framed repulsive.We must tackle white supremacist, antifeminist, and anti-queer rhetoric with the notion of one shared structural enemy, yet still observe each issue in its peculiarity to process and end it. We must live the contradiction that brings, as our world is contradictory.
(DIR) Post #Ar0RqSuv2lhTk3x5hg by ErikUden@mastodon.de
2025-02-11T10:36:06Z
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@hllizi THIS!!!
(DIR) Post #Ar0SHG3AzSF5efadg8 by funbaker@chaos.social
2025-02-11T10:40:54Z
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@ErikUden it is about not wasting time with side-conflicts, not that those concerns aren't valid
(DIR) Post #Ar0VrOlgM2vMyqKe5A by incoherentmumblings@jorts.horse
2025-02-11T11:21:03Z
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@ErikUden Unlike "Capitalism", "Patriarchy" is a very weakly defined word. It is therefore not possible to evaluate the truth of sentences like "Patriarchy existed before capitalism". Queen Victoria existed before capitalism too. Was that a matriarchy, since the worlds most powerful person was a Woman?In fact, the oppression of women IS a side conflict, just like any other oppression based on gender, including that of men. Same goes for oppression based on nationality or color of skin.
(DIR) Post #Ar0rxCj0F3VqMGFhrs by johnefrancis@cosocial.ca
2025-02-11T15:28:38Z
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@ErikUden I see all these as consequences of continually losing the economic class war. As long as political systems are captured by capital, it's going to be hard to make any lasting progress on any of that.
(DIR) Post #Ar1c9pHJK5KhIOFwEi by Npars01@mstdn.social
2025-02-12T00:06:19Z
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@ErikUden @hllizi Women were asked to wait until after WW1 to get the vote. They waited 72 years.https://nationalwomenshistoryalliance.org/history-of-the-womens-rights-movement/https://www.theworldwar.org/learn/about-wwi/womens-suffragePOC were asked to wait through WW2, Korea, then Vietnam. Then still had the Bradley Foundation wage a 50 year war to get a corrupt Supreme Court Justice John Roberts to overturn it.https://academic.oup.com/oxrep/article/40/3/486/7907277https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/conservatives-who-gutted-voting-rights-act-are-now-challenging-one-person-one-vote/Waiting until a crisis has passed usually means progress is thwarted for extended periods of time. 1/2
(DIR) Post #Ar29UxRFTWtrAmaY4W by jorger@troet.cafe
2025-02-12T06:19:54Z
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@ErikUden Ach, wenn's nur das ist - der Markt wird das schon richten!(frei nach Chrissi Lindner, Fritze Merz und anderen schrägen Vögeln)