> On May 13, 2026, at 14:02, Benjamin Morgan via groups.io > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Great conversation,
Thanks for responding. > > Intersectionality has always been interesting to me because I believe that > everyone is different in many ways. Questions of race, class and gender are > not ways to simply place identity into politics, but structural ways in which > power is operationalized differently depending on various contexts. "Race, class and gender" are also the bases of "triple oppression," which is a predecessor to critical race theory. Unlike CRT, Triple Oppression is not a legal concept but is rooted in a critique of capitalism by way of the CPUSA and other left traditions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_oppression. I think that "intersectionality" in a Marxist context is the intersection of working people across popular liberation struggles such Black, indigenous, women, LGTBQ, and others. "Popular" struggles include more than the working class such as clergy and attorneys. But the working class has anchored diverse liberation struggles. Many of these movements have influenced working-class struggles. And working-class organizations such as labor unions have propelled and unified these movement in the past. > ... > > Limiting the scope back to racial or economic justice, these concepts of > expansiveness run parallel to empathy and the capacity to share love with our > comrades to be vulnerable to criticisms even from our allies and to do the > work of justice and not of simply inclusion. Lenin once asked rhetorically how the Ukrainian worker can trust the Great Russian workers who defend their Great Russian privileges over them? I don't think it was a moral imperative to Lenin; I think it was as Marx and Engels described in The Communist Manifesto: "The proletarian movement is the self-conscious, independent movement of the immense majority, in the interest of the immense majority. The proletariat, the lowest stratum of our present society, cannot stir, cannot raise itself up, without the whole superincumbent strata of official society being sprung into the air." Mark -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#41721): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/41721 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/119272887/21656 -=-=- 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. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
