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The whole point of class analysis (materialist analysis) is that it destabilize notions of destiny and stability. The proletariate is not a group defined biologically or through some innate aspect of the body itself but through their position within a given historical moment and contradiction. As materialists, its obvious to us that any attempt to inscribe the identity of the proletariat as natural is ideology. Whether its claims of being less intelligent, being more lazy, whatever, it is all a means of naturalizing the class position to render it destiny. All such justifications are means for reinforcing the domination of the proletariat.
What Wittig tells us is that this is true of women as a class as well. An attempt to find a stable biological or bodily basis for answering the question “Who is a woman” is a means of naturalizing the class status of women. The entire point of shifting from thinking of women as a pregiven group to thinking of women as a class is to shift our thought in such a way that we can challenge naturalizing ideologies of womanhood which are attempts to justify the domination of women. Any debate that starts by asking “who counts as a woman in class analysis” misses the entire point of using materialist class analysis in the first place. We seek to displace and destroy gender and the coresponding class positions of man and woman. We won’t do that by endless arguing over definitions which themselves ideologically reinforce the divide.
To be a materialist, to define women as a class, is to deny the logic of “okay but who counts as a woman” in the first place
A paper I wrote a while back on Disney’s Mulan, vs. the Original Ballad of Mulan. I think it’s pretty cool. Sources are cited at the end of the paper, if you want to read more. I recommend it.
petition to title all research papers like clickbait articles
“You’ll NEVER Believe What These Rats Are Doing After Dark!” (behavioural analysis, neuroscience)
“The Shocking Truth About the Water We Drink!” (fluid dynamics, physics)
“Doctors Hate Him! Read About One Man’s Superhuman Ability to Defy Death” (20th century Russia, history)
“23 Things You Never Knew You Were Totally Wrong About!” (epistemology, philosophy)
But we’re mathematicians, and we’re all powerful, so we can do things.
There are many things that can be unearthed about Ayanami Rei. However, this is just a small analysis meant to help us better understand that Rei is a character who is much more than meets the eye. Every character within the Evangelion franchise is a multifaceted character and with…
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mike brown is literally dead and we’re blaming him for it
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eyewitnesses + multiple reports + video footage + forensic analysis from multiple sources
this isn’t a debate to be had
if u don’t think that darren wilson is a literal walking piece of human garbage then what are u doing with your life
Now, I know I’m going to get hate for this, but I’ve done full analysis of all the popular fandoms on tumblr. I’m going to tell you which ones are the worst and why. I have reasons and I have evidence for why these fandoms suck, and we’re going into everything. Here goes. The top 5 worst fandoms ever on tumblr.
Steven Universe fans: read this. I mean it. Do it now.
This is such magnificent analysis, and I absolutely agree with it.
