Think she styled herself after Harry Potter because of JKR's views on gender?
"This man from the 19th century who didn't know the word 'transgender' would not have respected your pronouns. and it is for this reason that I will not either."
Dialectical materialism means you view everything through the lens of it being 1848.
I'm curious how aware of trans culture Marx would've been. Afaik, Berlin and Paris were lgbt Meccas by the 1920s-30s, which likely didn't come out of nowhere, but of course a lot can change in like 50 years.
Sadly Marx and Engels were both massive homophobes:
“That is really a very odd ‘Urning’ you just sent me. Those are just unveilings being extremely against nature. The pederasts begin counting themselves and find that they are forming a power within the state. Only an organisation was missing, but according to this it seems to be already existing in the secret. And as they are counting so important men within all the old parties and even in the new ones, from Rösing to Schweitzer, their victory is inevitable. ‘Guerre aux cons, paix aux trous de cul’ it will go now. It is only a luck that we personally are too old to have to fear, this party gaining victory, to have to pay bodily tribute to the victors. But the young generation! By the way, only possible in Germany that a guy like that appears, translates the dirt into a theory and invites: introite, and so on. Unfortunately he was not yet as courageous as to confess openly being ‘That’, and still has to operate coram publico ‘from the front’ even though not ,from the front into as he once says by mistake. But first wait until the new North-German penal law has acknowledged the droits de cul then it will turn out quite differently. As for poor people from the front like us, with our childish favour for women, things will be going badly enough. If one could make use of that Schweitzer, it was to elicit from this strange man of honour the personal details of the high and the highest ranging pederasts, what surely would not be difficult for him as a congenial person…”
(Marx Engels Werke vol.32 -German edition - p. 324/5. Engels to Marx, June 22, 1869)
Sorry to be the one to share this with you. There’s a lot of other nasty shit in their letters as well. Kill your heroes and all that.
It's always so fucking hard to figure out who was a homophobe back in the day because they had so many euphemisms for being gay that they were terrified to say aloud that I'm like, shut the fuck up bitch and just say it you goddamn cowards
This is why I refuse modern medicine. If Marx didn't believe in germ theory then neither do I.
Marx and Engels may have been homophobic, but they did write that people in a socialist world would probably have a completely different view of love than either of them. Moreover, they also wrote about gender roles being socially constructed in "On the origin of the family, Private Property, and the State".
Plus, I'm pretty sure Marx never wrote anything condemning "Bourgeois Identity Politics.
Even Lenin wrote that a socialist has to stand in solidarity with and fight for all oppressed people. These people love coopting actual revolutionaries and taking like half a sentence as emblematic of their whole work
There's a section in "Family, Private Property, and the State" where Engels refers to "the abominable crime of sodomy" so there is a valid case for calling him homophobic. However, that didn't affect any of their political projects and is more of a matter of what they personally thought. This is probably because they lived about 100 years before there was any kind of movement for gay people.
Also, that text you're talking about has Engels refer to Urning (a term for gay people) as Pederasts.
Here's a great summary of it: https://ufmrg.files.wordpress.com/2017/11/wolf-mrg-article-1.pdf
If anything, Marx would be really interesting in the criticism of the gender binary. He'd probably see them as the logical conclusions of his and related works, because they are.
I saw a couple of her other posts and she definitely doesn't have the patience or subtlety to dog whistle. Apparently she got in trouble with her department for "calling out" someone discussing TERFs. Where do TERFs find the confidence to do shit like this? As a PhD student I don't even point out typos from guest speakers.
to be fair, I think that's just the default wojack and not something she added. not saying she isn't a dick, or a reactionary, or transphobe, but yeah.
I don't think the nerd rage one was But I'm not going to continue carrying water for transphobes just to nitpick.
Yeah, it's essentially a soy face meme, which always had a scraggly beard. But I'm also pretty sure she consciously chose it for a trans person and knew what she was doing, so who care.
"Anti-idpol Marxist" means "Gender Critical" which means "TERF" which means "a White Supremacist, soon™". This is such a weird group of people.
This subgroup of politics posters is so strange man. Getting riled up over the contemporary liberal fad (idpol stuff) and treating that as the nr. 1 issue is not Marxist to say the least. All it is is a distraction, culture war with a red flair.
$$$. She's not an interesting enough thinker to get published for her Marxist views in any left wing publication, but it's easy to be the token leftist for bullshit like the post millenial or quillette.
There are plenty of those who aren't even getting paid for it too
I find it funny when an account which does discuss race or other identity issues ran by a black person gets called class reductionist by white libs for speaking about class. Like mfer, we can see that you're a centrist acting in bad faith when you do shit like that.
Some of them also don't want class discussed because it could go against their own material interests, or what they've been made to think their material interests are.
I think its just a lot of fishooks: https://www.rebelnews.com/save_anna_slatz
holy shit her little "i was arrested screed" is just like an endless stream of right wing talking points and BS
Go so far left or right you end up going back the other way
Also called horse shoe
isn't this the girl who filmed herself in her car screaming about how we have to vote Biden to stop the fascists?
makes sense. do you happen to have a link to any posts about her screaming video, or the video, I can't find it and that kinda creeps me out
Only thing I can find is a Dinesh D Souza Facebook post that has it in it: (click at your own risk) https://m.facebook.com/DSouzaDinesh/videos/674086236544880/
If I was American I might have done that rant to myself, but thankfully I'm not a Lib, or American
There's a difference in being critical of the liberal use identity politics and being a left wing reactionary.
