Materialism n anti-capitalism
Edie Wyatt at Spectator Australia makes a valuable point:
The right frequently refers to the “cultural Marxism” that dominates gender ideology, while the gender-critical left sees it more as cultural capitalism. Genuine socialists are materialists after all, and don’t believe in the ethereal concept of a gender soul. They object to the unrestrained capitalist greed of the medical-industrial complex and the commodification of the human body.
Yes. Both of those. Well said.
What’s the argument behind gender ideology = Marxism?
GW, there isn’t one. Read the article.
I did, and I am gobsmacked at the tacit support for a socialist worldview from a right wing rag.
Briefly: Gender ideology, like the rest of the CT-derived nonsense, presumes and requires as an article of faith an oppressor-oppressed relationship perpetuated by those who toil under a false consciousness that, when broken through, will give way to a utopia. In the case of gender quackery, this false consciousness leads people to reinforce their own oppression and slavery to the neocolonial notion of biological sex. Only by destabilizing the very concepts of sex and gender can the false consciousness be dismantled. When a sufficient portion of the population becomes properly aware of their oppression, they will rise up and break their chains, ushering in a new era free of the constraints that rigid conceptions of sex and gender place upon people’s flourishing. (How it is known that this will happen is something only a capitalist, er, a transphobe would question.) There are many who will argue that philosophy or science contradict this perspective, but those philosophies and sciences should be discarded: the only philosophy or science of value is that which changes the world.
Unfortunately the “marketplace of ideas,” is a little slow on the uptake, so while we’re waiting for this outdated perspective to naturally wither, and fall away, we will do our best to supress it, ruthlessly.
Of course. After all, those laboring under this false consciousness actually believe themselves sensible! The only way forward is to force them to acknowledge the truth. In time, the practice of submission to Communi–er, gender identity will naturally erode their resistance, replacing their old worldview with the true paradigm. Because history is a path with a predefined endpoint, and that endpoint is [indistinct].
(Excuse me. What was that last bit?)
Hm? Oh, um, the endpoint of history is a state in which no bad things obtain. Everyone will then be, um, … uh, … klatu verata nikto. [cough]
(Come again?)
Transphobe!