It has become increasingly clear that every facet of the left has been overtaken by women who only a few years ago used to identify as liberal feminists. Every subset of leftism from MLs to the democratic cops of america is filled with these (almost always white or white-washed) women who have shifted the discourse from materialist class politics to one about abortion, sex work, trans rights, attention whoring for likes and #metoo drama. I've even being seeing an increasing number of these "leftist" women straight up begging followers for money because they know they can instantly get a platform on social media just by virtue of being female and "leftist".
Isn't this exactly what the pushback against Idpol was *supposed* to prevent? The liberal feminist movement of the 00s and 10s that played a large role in stiffing any talk about leftist economics is still here with us despite Trump's win, and it has simply taken on a new form.
Where are all the leftist men and why have they been so happy to step aside and let the discourse be dictated by liberals?
well first of the left was never united and its shit was always fucked up with identity politics and circular firing squads.
Second of all if the internet left gets bigger the con men will appear just like they did with the alt right.
Jack Reyes
Pathetic bait.
Evan Anderson
One the one hand this sounds like concern trolling but on the other this exact thing happened with pic related, so who knows…
At any length, half of all people are women, their concerns matter. Abortion and being free from harassment in the workplace are concerns that fit neatly into class struggle, as they impact the position of women as workers, and can lead to (dis) empowerment vis a vis the capitalists.
Is that so? Funny how actual class struggles like Fight For 15 and the various teacher's strikes around the nation have been completely detached from these "leftist" circles.
Don't you think it's interesting how every card carrying leftist woman spends so much time talking about abortion and sexual harassment and overall social media attention whoring yet actual working class women are the ones doing anything even remotely like actual class warfare?
It's almost as if these leftist women are middle class LARPers whose sole intent is on pushing liberal feminism and couldn't care less about working class struggles.
Isaiah Hall
(a) this is not a recent trend (b) it's not just women doing it, everyone in the mainstream left is because the old left failed to reproduce itself in the current generation (c) idpol is idpol, feminism isn't nearly as self-destructive as racial politics are anyway. Just look at who voted in the 2016 election: a narrow majority of white women voted for Trump while all nonwhites voted against him by a margin of 2-to-1 if not larger. The use of racial divisions is much stronger and suppresses worker solidarity by distracting people.
The core of the problem is that those running mainstream left things these days are bourgeoisie who unironically *believe* in globalist capitalism because globalist capitalism is to them this perfect meritocracy that will enlighten all oppressed groups and destroy all nationalism. That's the core of the issue here, they see globalist capitalism as a sacred thing (almost a religion) which must be protected from heresy. Heretics include Zig Forums on the right and actual socialists on the left. Ironically they'll do business with any socdem shit so long as they praise globalism and markets, which is why they all trust China.
Elijah Williams
Most of the people involved in such struggles likely support what you would describe as liberal feminism.
Josiah Myers
This is much less a matter of women promoting stupid socjus crap as it is the modern left as a whole being unimaginative and unwilling to reform their current coalitions/voter bases. They have completely forgotten their roots, and now only see a plausible future in a "coalition of the ascendant" aka empowered minorities and women who are empowered through their credit cards. Workers have become this redundant, defunct leftover from the past century, so they are not given any help.
Reference the 2016 election where elites seriously tried to make it Jeb vs. Hilary. Hilary herself has the exact same positions as her husband, and is therefore stuck in the year 1992. That's the core of the problem, modern politicians (except schemers like Trump) are getting old and are stuck thirty years in the past. This is more prevalent on the left, because the basic codex of leftism is civil rights and that cannot be disputed in any way unlike how the right's basic codex of "family values" can be subject to different interpretations.
I mean, let me just surf to "fightfor15.org/press-room/" - look at that, the very first article is by someone called "Wendi" - sure sounds like a woman.
