
Politics in Command: Analyzing the Error of Economism
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Is Economism a Serious Error?
Class is treated like an essence or identity for the mechanical class reductionist identities generated by oppression. For idealist version of intersectionalism class is just one identity among multiple intersecting sites of oppression. When we understand class as a social relation rather than a pre-given essence we can talk about class according to three qualifications there structure formation and consciousness. The notion of changing your position is one that was seen as not natural even though it's the reality this remarks and angles came up but it's one that had nothing to do with a pre-existing essence. Every society has a class structure that in order to function needs to be filled so they're called "class workers" i'm going to
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