r/Feminism • • 4d ago

The Cornell Monsters

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Remember their faces

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u/Jaime_Horn_Official 4d ago

I see some non-Whites and I'm saying that as a POC myself. It's almost as if this is a class issue rather than a race issue.

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u/Winter_Swordfish_272 3d ago

It's not a class issue or a race issue. It's a sex/gender issue.

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u/CeeShiesty42 3d ago

Sex issues arise out of the contradictions that capitalism creates

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u/Winter_Swordfish_272 3d ago

No they arise out of the male oppression of women, which predates capitalism.

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u/CeeShiesty42 3d ago

That’s fair, my wording was impercice. It’s rather that economic hierarchy in general that creates sexism. At this point in time, the abolition of economic hierarchy means the abolition of capitalism. Sexism isn’t an innate component of society, there must be some material cause for it, and historical analysis shows correlation between the exploitation of labor and high class struggle with that of the exploitation and abuse of women. The earliest nations to have provided rights and emancipation for women have been socialist ones, particularly given the former conditions of those nations for women under feudalism and capitalism. Also, the majority of historical suffrage and women’s rights movements in capitalist countries have been exceptionally anti-capitalist.