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[–] tinned_tomatoes@feddit.uk 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm just asking a question dude, other replies have been useful.

[–] Bishop_Owl@hexbear.net 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I apologize for assuming your question was in bad faith.

I'll offer what I can.

I'm starting from the following premise:

Capitalism is a system built on the exploitation of the many, for the benefit of the few. Put more precisely, modern Western Capitalism is a system built by and for the materially dominant gender, ethnicity, sexuality, and religion of western society with the express purpose of subjugating and exploiting all other sub-groups within and without. Communism is the only alternative which actually reconciles human ideals with the material reality of the world we inhabit.

In the course of its resistance to communist ideas spreading within western society, Capitalism turns to a set of defense mechanisms, which if we want to simplify are basically all of the mechanisms by which Liberalism turns into Fascism. For the sake of cutting to the chase though, the part of this process I want to zoom in on is the scapegoating of the marginalized: immigrants, ethnic minorities, religious minorities, and LGBTQIA+ people among many others.

"Other people are the reason you're unhappy" is the easiest lie to tell the people who they've actively been fucking over, and the easiest people to blame everything on are those who belong to relatively small subgroups, as well as groups who have been deliberately cut off from broader society via limiting their access to education, housing, healthcare, culture, etc. etc.

The fact that this is framed as a cultural issue and not a class issue is why it is so surprising for many people to see the "leftist" political leaders walking back their support of trans rights or leaning into immigration crackdown. When it really feels like we need them to provide an alternative to fascism, they balk and their true priority makes itself clear: performance for the sake of keeping people comfortable with the current system, but only just so. It's the same reason we have recessions like fucking clockwork: people who aren't desperate (or distracted) are people who might start reading.

I got sidetracked, sorry. And again sorry for not taking your question at face value.

Edit: added some specificity