Solid framing on why both pure identity politics and class reductionism fail. The line about "Black business person exploiting a Black worker" cuts through a lot of the shallow representation stuff we see. What clicked for me is how capitalism doesn't oppress uniformly but uses identity categories to stratify exploitation, which means any serious class analysis has to account for those stratifcations or it's just abstract theory that can't mobilize anyone.
Solid framing on why both pure identity politics and class reductionism fail. The line about "Black business person exploiting a Black worker" cuts through a lot of the shallow representation stuff we see. What clicked for me is how capitalism doesn't oppress uniformly but uses identity categories to stratify exploitation, which means any serious class analysis has to account for those stratifcations or it's just abstract theory that can't mobilize anyone.
Precisely! You said it very well. A divided working class is easier to exploit and control.
What is "transphobia"?
Per the merriam-Webster definition: discrimination against, aversion to, or fear of transgender people.
Which people are those?