Carmen’s Reviews > The Politics of Everybody: Feminism, Queer Theory, and Marxism at the Intersection > Status Update
Carmen
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En plan...100% "When the working class is invoked, or the Black family, or refugee crises, or an international confla-gration, it is generally imagined as a crisis of heterosexual people or a movement of heterosexual people. Gay people exist within the bubble of the gay problematic. They do not suffer economic crises, play video games, care for aging parents, or fight for the rights of fellow immigrants."
— Apr 17, 2024 05:22AM
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Tengo que releerlo con más calma, después de indagar en perspectivas en las que indaga el libro con las que solo estoy familiarizada y también para repensar con otras referencias sobre cuestiones de reproducción social, derechos reproductivos, de qué manera las teorías postestructuralistas pueden tener una dimensión más material de lo que se critica en el libro y una visión más matizada del postcolonialismo.
— May 02, 2024 10:57AM
Carmen
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Leyendo otras críticas, acercándome al final he podido ir articulando una sospecha ... La sospecha del dogma, la inconsistencia entre lo condicional y la teoría determinista... la llamada a un internacionalismo y desestimar el pensamiento decolonial crítico... la relación de condicionamiento entre lo material y lo social tiende a brillar por su ausencia y me gustaría más lecturas situadas de marx...
— Apr 20, 2024 02:22PM
Carmen
is on page 260 of 352
Me gustaría que en algún momento se dijera que esta perspectiva tiene sus límites y no puede abarcar todo y nace de un contexto determinado y me gustaría que no se redujese las "disco wars" a que el capitalismo vendiese la idea del placer como algo malo 🫠 o que no se utilizase la crítica de la crítica y que aportase sus propias perspectivas del colonialismo, y la sección sobre la construcción de la razas...
— Apr 20, 2024 01:19PM
Carmen
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"Whiteness is presented in the same double way in liberal pluralist variants of privilege politics. In this account, racism is a property emanating from white minds; thus, ending racism means eradicating this mental tendency. (...) In other words, in the liberal pluralist view, ending racism is not a struggle aided by awareness, it is the awareness campaign itself."
— Apr 20, 2024 04:21AM
Carmen
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"Much of the classical Marxist tradition constructed a false choice between three political modalities: reactionary protection of the family from erosion by capitalism, liberal pluralism, and a vision of liberation connected to the good old days of yesteryear’s material conditions."
— Apr 17, 2024 04:01AM
Carmen
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"Your parents might have disowned you, your neighbors might vote against your interests, but Apple supports you (...) this cynical display of corporate affection exists in a gap where genuine solidarity could be: the labor unions support you, the Black power movements support you, the immigrants’ rights groups support you, reproductive rights groups support you, the revolutionary Marxists support you."
— Apr 17, 2024 03:58AM
Carmen
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"So, without economics, what can class be? Class becomes classism or discrimination based on class. Class oppression is reduced to having to endure the snobbishness of the upper classes. It does not explain how upper and lower classes are maintained. (..) Once again, the culprit of all social ills is power, privilege, and othering. The material relations of social production never enter the picture."
— Apr 14, 2024 01:54PM
Carmen
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Siento que a medida que avanzo, las lecturas se van haciendo múltiples y desde el cuerpo, y creo que apela a un sentido de la política en la práctica, sobretodo como crítica de gente como a mí que durante mucho tiempo he estado obsesionada con la indignación sin llegar a hacer nada.
— Apr 13, 2024 04:55AM
Carmen
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"Having a job affirms that one creates value; being returned a piece of that value reaffirms personal worth; the fact that one can support oneself with wages suggests that one has social value. The fact that the economic system requires an enormous underclass supports the supposition that a certain cluster of behaviors, a certain way of genuflecting at the system, is how one achieves the financial stability one desires."
— Apr 10, 2024 12:53AM
Carmen
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"Yet structural unemployment is a necessary feature of the free market system. The ability to discipline the labor force is necessary to extract profit from it. Te concepts of familial duty and personal responsibility form the moral orthodoxy that keeps the system afloat. Familial duty puts the onus on the labor force to provide for their own individual children regardless of how low wages fall."
— Apr 10, 2024 12:36AM

