Dear comrade, I think you have quite an economistic perception of marxism and its worldview.
Firstly, Marx was never limit his analysis solely to class and economic questions. In fact from start, he combated a lot of chauvinistic attacks and nationalism, pointing out how the superstructure of capitalist society alienates and treated human beings as some sort of appendage of the machine. If you pay attention to Communist Manifesto you can read the following: >Owing to the extensive use of machinery and to division of labour, the work of >the proletarians has lost all individual character, and consequently all charm >for the workman. He becomes an appendage of the machine, and it is only the >most simple, most monotonous, and most easily acquired knack, that is required >of him. Hence, the cost of production of a workman is restricted, almost >entirely, to the means of subsistence that he requires for his maintenance, >and for the propagation of his race. But the price of a commodity, and >therefore also of labour, is equal to its cost of production. In proportion, >therefore, as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases. Marx and Engels quite clearly explained how capitalism as a whole treat and constructed around transforming workers into this plain continuation of the machine and how the wage question relates more to cultural aspects. For instance, "reproducing working class" means no only buying things but also alienates workers from exploring themselves as something more than just these dummies who produce a surplus. Like capitalists use means from entertainment to control of sexual life to convince capitalism is normal, workers need only give education for being better servants of machinery, etc. However, combating against this means reducing working hours, getting better wage to explore self and promote own self-exploration combating alienation, i.e. when goods produced by workers controlled outside them and when capitalists deny they ability to explore the self. Secondly, you can see how this affects sexuality. If you read more on state and its laws, the state considers women as being no mere than baby-producing machines that cannot even control their own womb. At the same, men and women divided and treated only in the context of the ability to reproduce the population, to such extent that there can be laws directly controlling sexuality and considering that women shall be not engaged in certain activities due "issues with reproducing health". So being trans is somewhat appendage and you directly considered to be castrated (like in Finland, Slovakia, Czechia, Romania, Japan, etc), forced to save and freeze your genetic material and in general, shall be a good trans and stay out of the public sphere. Thirdly, nor Marx, nor Engels were dealing with transgender and non-binarity topic. But Marxism is a paradigm, hence, it has its own methods and worldview which you can expand to understand such issues, like how it relates to capitalism as a whole and why it requires to use of certain ways of treating workers. Btw, "transexual" is a term from 70s, and it's now not used and will be omitted in the ICD-11 edition, please, when you refer to trans people like me avoid using it and use transgender women, men or non-binary. Also asking pronounces is nice ton. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#6823): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/6823 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/80953897/21656 -=-=- 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/8674936/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
