'Lewis takes up a debate with several Black feminists who have, at various times, questioned the idea of family abolition, whose central argument has been that, very often, Black families have been sites of resistance against racism. Similarly, we could point to many experiences of class struggle in which sectors of working families have played a key role against the attacks of capital: supporting strikes, establishing relations of solidarity between factories and neighborhoods, staging rent strikes, maintaining soup kitchens, creating movements in defense of public services, and many other forms of resistance. The tradition of “women’s commissions” in strikes, for example, has allowed the working class to articulate fighting forces far beyond the workplace.
'To this criticism Lewis responds that, even so, we should not cease working for the abolition of the family, since we would not need its “protective shield” if we managed to build a society without racism. The argument contains a grain of truth, but it stops halfway. It fails to contemplate the role that the family relations within sectors of the working class and oppressed can play in moments of heightened class struggle. On another level, it doesn’t account for the fact that capitalism, while it needs such a “social cell” for its own reproduction, constantly undermines working families’ very conditions of existence. Marx and Engels remarked on this in the mid-19th century, pointing to the length of the working day, the lack of decent housing, and the general precariousness of working class life.'
Josefina L. Martínez : https://www.leftvoice.org/love-and-care-beyond-capitalism/
#property #gender #subordination #dependence #family #debates #debate #abolition #antiCapitalism #Fourier #Lewis #sociology #anthropology #communities #feminism #feminisms #chores #care #queer #rainbowMafia #historyOfIdeas #Marxism #relationships #abolitionism #culturalism #radicalFeminism #materialism #classes #revolution #domesticWork #classStruggle #careWork #historyOfFeminism
Worker's struggles aren't just for better pay or better working conditions - as important as those are! - but for the liberation of the entire working CLASS. That includes unemployed people, stay-at-home housekeepers and parents, children, elders, homeless and disabled people too (whether we work or not). We're all in this together.
The oppression of the underclass, making those who cannot or refuse to work soul-crushingly miserable and often outright dead - that's a threat to keep the workers who do work in line. "Be glad you have your shitty job(s), it could be even worse!"
Thus, we need things for free: Housing, food, health care, education, access to natural spaces, relaxation and social connections.
We deserve things for free. We deserve a welfare state, or better yet a state-free society that takes care of its most vulnerable members first, as a matter of course. That makes a world where everyone can thrive and no one has to "earn" their right to thrive, let alone live.
Bosses tell us it is entitled to ask for things for free. "They want more pay for less work! 😱" seems like a no-brainer condemnation, when in reality it is just fact.
Bosses are the ones who take things for free, and not the things everyone should have, but the things NO ONE should have: The "right" to exploit workers and make them disabled, the "right" to get away with sexually abusing them if they so chose, the "right" to extract earth's resources for personal gain, the "right" to destroy, poison and heat up the earth's ecosystems, climate and even orbit. The "right" to control our free speech, lobby for laws, buy politicians, wage war for profit. The "right" to be talked about with respect, deference and unquestioning acceptance of their unhinged axioms.
Make bosses pay.
On May Day, International Workers’ Day, Chris Low traces the life of working-class militant Martin “Lux” Wright and shares a previously unpublished interview.
https://diyconspiracy.net/martin-lux-class-warfare/
#martinlux #classwar #classstruggle #anarchism #antifascist #antifascism #mayday #internationalworkersday
Happy International Workers’ Day! 🎉
Here we are, sipping coffee in an AC room, debating labor rights and fair wages, while someone outside hasn’t eaten since yesterday.
But hey, at least we’re aware of the struggle. That’s basically the same as fixing it, right? .... Right?
Solidarity! ✊
Yesterday the Dutch King had his birthday, which is accompanied by a yearly national celebration and holiday. Here are my two cents on this phenomenon:
Abolition of the #RoyalFamily, my proposal:
Stripping the Royal Family of all ranks, titles and privileges. Expropriation of all economic assets, estates, all property and other assets in kind, all shares and sums exceeding 100,000 euros.
Offer a simple family house to the Royal Family; personal items such as books, a toothbrush, a bicycle, etc. are, of course, excluded from expropriation.
The public holiday on King’s Day will be replaced by both a public holiday on 1 May and a public holiday on 2 May (which they arent today), on which public festivals, flea markets, etc. may take place.
#monarchy #republic #classstruggle #1May #socialrevolution #Netherlands
ONLY THE RICH CAN AFFORD TO BE LIBERAL
I have no formal training in political theory. I haven't read Rawls or Locke. My political education came from living around poor people, middle class people, people with caste and religion, people fighting for survival with whatever ideology was available. So my views aren't academic. I think liberalism is something only people with money can afford to believe in. I grew up around people who couldn't afford the luxury of abstract politics. When your problem is whether you'll eat tomorrow […]https://ridiculousbharath.wordpress.com/2026/04/27/only-the-rich-can-afford-to-be-liberal/
#Antimilitarism in not #pacifism. Altough there are overlapping motivations, they are different, where pacifism bears a deep moral component and anti-militarism has stronger analytic and strategic leanings.
Anti-militarism focussus more on the societal and structural effects of how the military is organised and what function it plays for the interests of the bourgeois class, the enforcement outwards for the state and internally in disciplining the #workingclass. This can also be the case for pacifism.
Anti-militarism however is not the rejection of the understanding that in the case of social revolution, the bourgeoisie will mobilize against the revolution and the need for (armed) #selfdefense against this. I will post more on this in the near future. As these questions are very important and need to seriously updated to a 21st century theory.
The wars in #Ukraine, #Sudan, #Palestine, #Syria, #Kurdistan, #Lebanon, #Venezuela, #Cuba and many other places, and the rise of militarism across the whole western hemisphere, has shown us that it is very important to understand these dynamic, understand our own need for security, and the need to be able to put something in opposition to the #militarism and #imperialism of the state and bourgeoisie, in order to prevent us from being dragged in their wars, become footsoldiers in defense of other regimes which we don't support either, or stand on the side as bystanders, instead of developing a truly revolutionary alternative that is able to navigate its own course.
#internationalism #antiimperialism #anarchism #war #revolution #socialism #communism #classstruggle #classwar
Wenn du entdeckst, dass du ein totes Pferd reitest, steig ab.
Mehr bleibt zum Thema sPD und Verrat an der arbeitenden Klasse nicht zu sagen.
#fckspd #WerHatUnsVerratenSozialdemokraten #arbeiterklasse #klassenkampf #ClassSolidarity #classstruggle
Der Klassenkampf ist endgültig erklärt, dieses Mal wie so oft, nicht von der arbeitenden Klasse, sondern - wie fast immer - von den Kapitalisten gegen die Arbeiterklasse
#klassenkampf #dielinke #merzmussweg #fckmrz #FCKCDUCSU #TaxTheRich #classstruggle #nichtmeinKanzler #nichtmeineregierung
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