Today, decades of hard-fought victories in the struggle for female emancipation are under threat from waves of resurgent misogyny. From attacks on abortion and reproductive justice, to the revival and spread of religious fundamentalism and authoritarian nationalism… patriarchy is on the march. Meanwhile, as the corporate media celebrates the #TimesUp movement initiated by rich women in Hollywood, femicide, sexual exploitation and rape continue to tear more marginalized communities apart.
Systems of male domination lie at the very roots of capitalism and state power. During periods of political crisis and counter-revolution, women, and all those who eschew their socially-assigned gender roles, are often the first to be targeted for repression and increased violence. In part, this is because of the important position that women have always occupied, as the beating hearts of communities of resistance. But this repression is also intended as a token gesture to working-class men that are upset by their declining social and economic status, and who rather than focus their rage at their true enemies – the rich and powerful – have historically and consistently opted to clutch ever tighter to their positions of relative power and control over their would-be female comrades.
In this month’s edition of Trouble, sub.Media takes a look at patriarchy as an enduring system of social, economic and political control, and shares stories from some of the front-line struggles being waged by women around the world – from Indigenous communities fighting against the colonial dispossession of their lands, to the challenges faced by migrants forced from their homes by economic inequality, climate change, and war. sub.media/video/trouble-11-destroying-domination/
Protip: this shitty joke wasn't funny when you first made it and it won't magically become funny at a future time either.
Joshua Parker
Leftypol: a place where people can have a laugh and definitely not a place full of recalcitrant, resentful autists.
Jack Reed
Hey I think I'm the first to use dickletariat. And if you've got a problem with my comedy report it to Party they won't do shit, they know I'm the only one who's willing to be paid in little red books.
If you are laughing at that you need to leave Zig Forums before you get permabanned for being underage.
Charles Brooks
bumping this thread
Xavier Price
They hit hard on the liberal buzzwords pretty early on, which was cringeworthy, but then they took a pivot towards a class-based analysis of how racial and gender discrimination solidify the power of capital.
So I think the intended audience for this is not people who are already radical, I think it's meant to radicalize idpol liberals.
Colton Powell
Hahahahahahahaha! I'm a dickletariat too comrade. Cum! We must seize the means of reproduction with our dicks XD
A feminazi triggered? How surprising. Let me guess, you have a fish face too?
You're really perpetuating the leftists can't be funny myth.
Lincoln Diaz
user..
Anthony Ortiz
After lurking Zig Forums I became a TURF, not because they have good ideas or anything just because hoochie is so fucking anoying and I bet they still lurk.
Mason Cox
That's some pure autism right there. I am now an anarchist-exclusive radical communist thanks to you.
Jordan Campbell
Stuff like this fucks me up. Look at this for example. This is just straight mythical, fascist-esque story telling. "Our good white boys have always dun good things in good land, we deserve good land. It's just like these feelgood rallying points around race, sex, even consumer identities, and they all have these myths and legends about who they are. You can even see this in some super old feminist literature where women are the more courageous, better halves that just keep on getting magically dunked on, and now they will glorious uprising and succeed. This too During counterrevolution, the women are targeted first? Because, maybe I've just been confused, but I thought the main targets of counter revolutionary activities were revolutionaries. This stuff just annoys me. It seems to be a common thread between empty organizations. These sort of myths, or perhaps they are just empty rallying points. I don't think it is a coincidence that nationalist rhetoric employs these liberally, or that Jordan Peterson is so obsessive of them. I don't know. I truly hate this stuff for making me think with no solution. Maybe feminists and socialists should just stay separated, but I don't want Socialism with nogirlsallowed. It also just seems like a huge waste of time. Bad blogpost, I know
Lincoln Taylor
Seeing phrases like "communities of resistance" in lefty news is starting to turn me off of politics
I just get these stupid images of American antifa carrying some stupid sign about "defending our communities from racists" where it's like 40 of them and maybe 1 redneck.
HOly shit dude… lol you pretty much expressed my exact above sentiment and yes I could not agree more. Reading htis made me wanna fucking puke.
Since when is any race/gender/class/whatever inherently good or bad, more or less moral? What a crock of liberal horseshit. I feel like I'm not even a left winger anymore because I run into this kind of rhetoric all the time now. OR maybe i just never noticed it before but fuuuuuuck
Jack Wood
feminist socialists just need to drop the attempts to turn the two things into the same thing. They're different issues, and obviously, as a socialist, you might see other issues from a socialist perspective and see how capitalism relates to them, but that doesnt mean its literally the same thing. but that probably wont happen, because "radicalism" about social issues is an emotional substitute for actual revolution for the people who take it up. if I'm charitable to them.
Levi Howard
There's nothing mythical about historical facts. Are you even aware the immense contributions women made to revolutionary movements?
Kayden Lee
These two post were some of the least funny uses of the English language in history. I'd rather have read the court proceedings for the Apple v. Samsung law suits than this fucking garbage.
Jordan Williams
You're missing the point.
Blake Phillips
It doesn't really seem like it.
Noah Kelly
You are, but I made the post knowing somebody would.
Anyways, I never denied that women have made contributions to revolution. My point was that so many movements have these tales of success, glory, whatever, that either aren't true or are heavily construed to fit an agenda. This is an example from the article. Women are not often the first to be targeted for repression and violence during counter-revolution. It's just not what happens. People are so rarely targets of anything, really. Widespread injustice effects tons of different people at once, this type of speech is simply undialectical. At best it is obfuscative and at worst it is manipulative. A great example of speech like this can be found, like I said earlier, in Nationalist rhetoric. Take Israel for a great example. "Muh based Jews are targeted forever by repression because we don't have majority country, so yeah Israel". (It still tickles me how this implies the Jews will now oppress their minorities). Stuff like this is just moral shock and awe, platitudes and halftruths transmuted into social smoke grenades. These stories are used to quell critical thinking, and I rightfully dislike them.
Aiden Diaz
It's not an article, it's a short blurb to make you watch the video. And it is not "undialectical". The text is about women, not people in general. Of course it is going to talk about women specifically instead of writing some overly general things about how all kinds of people are effected by repression. Of course it is going to mention that they indeed participated in revolutionary politics and had to pay the price for it, despite the widespread memes that women are not part of history and not interested in politics, or if they do, they are "soft" and not radicals. I genuinely don't understand what your problem is. Are you denying the roles women played in revolutionary movements and the repression they faced because of it? Are you upset that it's not written like an encyclopedia?
Did a crippled person shit in your mouth or something?
Josiah Thomas
Isn't it the other way around?
Nolan Wood
That isn't really his argument though. He's not saying "how dare this focus on women and not people in general", his point is how needlessly aggrandizing the rhetoric is even for something focusing on women specifically. No, he literally said he didn't. Stop with the kafka trap bullshit.
Sebastian Rogers
So what's "needlessly aggrandizing" in this example that they used: During periods of political crisis and counter-revolution, women, and all those who eschew their socially-assigned gender roles, are often the first to be targeted for repression and increased violence. I can't read minds, I have to use what they wrote, and what they wrote is that focusing on a particular instead of the general is "undialectical" and probably fascism.
Carter Sanders
No, Engles makes it very clear in The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State how patriarchal relations were necessary for the state to form and capitalism to develop. One could argue that capitalism no longer depends on it and it could do away with it, yet it's still there.
Julian Gutierrez
He already elaborated what is problem is regarding that same quote twice already dude just shut the fuck up damn fucking silly mother fucker shit
Noah Moore
Yes, because women were treated fairly and in power in every communist society ever.
I would like to point out there was only one system that put them in power and they promptly began destroying their countries.
Landon Price
No he elaborated on what happens in the next sentence. Is any silly mother fucker here able to respond to criticism with anything more than lame ass one liners, anime girls and non-sequitur questions?
Brody Gutierrez
lmao this shit is going to end nowhere but the most absurd scenario where battle of the sexes, Nazi masturbation fantasys etc are real
Luis Murphy
But that's a factually true statement and you claimed just a post before that they do not deny that.
Jordan Ramirez
not me dumb queer eat dicks and die faggot
Jaxson Scott
They denied that people get repressed at all, you shouldn't take them seriously.
Angel Long
Calm down, you literally said it in >>2453496:
Colton Perez
You have absolute dogshit reading comprehension if that's what you got from his post. I think the more likely explanation is that you're being a disingenuous fuck though.
Wyatt Murphy
who dis
Gavin Howard
I made this post
I am not any of these people
Two people can say similar things and not be a samefag, shocking I know
Colton Johnson
no, he didn't, he just followed up one unsubstantiated claim with another
you're both stupid fuckers
Tyler Evans
So the real retard here is and ?
Cooper Torres
(You)r comment is what they mean when they say the Left can't meme.
