I think that it bears mentioning that “Marxism” is a nebulous and somewhat ambiguous term that describes a plethora of political programs, some much more radical than others. There were plenty of aspiring Marxists in the Israeli Labor Party that used Marxist vocabulary as a sort of justification for the ethnic cleansing of historic Palestine. The remainders of the old Socialist Party of America in 1968 considered themselves Marxists and aligned with a racist teachers union during the 1968 NY teacher strike.
As the good Dr. Meeropol indicated earlier, Marxism is a science, meaning not a moral or ethical argument. One of the first things that Marx said after he engaged with the early economic writings of Engels was eject the plea to the morality of the reader and said that instead his project was about the strict observation of a set of natural occurrences in the capitalist system that would lead to breakdown and thus revolution. There are moral observations that one can derive obviously but that is a project autonomous from the simple observation. I mentioned this because the preceding hyena feeding frenzy re: anti-trans macho posturing demonstrated in a certain fashion that lack of a moral/ethical mandate. The desire to derive an ethics from a method of scientific observation has been a struggle for 150 years. Would you be able to derive a certain ethical mandate from the scientific method that you used in laboratory chemistry during high school? The gap is filled in by a number of writings, such as THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO, various writings by Lenin, and others. When it comes to trans identity, I observe the anthropology. We know that the gender binary is a European imposition that did not exist prior to the 1492 invasion. Ergo the defense of the binary system is a defense of settler colonial ideology. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#5428): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/5428 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/79587279/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
