Posted: Sat Aug 15, 2015 10:57 am
Chessmistress wrote:Constantinopolis wrote:Here's an inconvenient truth that only authoritarians like me will admit:
If you really want to change culture in a big way and in a short period of time, you have to do it by force.
So yes, if you think there is something very wrong with present-day culture that needs to be changed ASAP - regardless of whether you're coming from a liberal or conservative angle, whether you want to uphold women's rights or restore the importance of religion in society or whatever - then you will be naturally drawn to authoritarian measures. Because those are the only measures that can make big changes quickly. And that's ok. The state is the greatest tool for social change ever invented by human kind. Use it. Embrace it.
Those who oppose the use of state power to change culture are those who basically support the status quo.
^this^
And that's exactly why we, as Radical Feminists, are ready even to temporary and apparently weird alliances, like in example when we marched right next christians in order to stop the legalization of prostitution: because we accept that some force is needed if someone wish to change things, and in a democracy force is achieved by numbers.
In example: Convention of Istanbul, a Radical Feminist policy protecting women from domestic violence performed by males, was passed even with a lot of conservative votes across 18 European countries.
And I, as a Marxist who is also a Christian and sympathizes with many socially-conservative causes, would be very happy to be allied with you. In fact, I sympathize with both socially-conservative causes and radical feminist causes, because they often share a common enemy: liberal capitalist society and the culture it promotes, which commodifies and degrades women.
Libertarians will bleat about the supposed "right" that people have to degrade and commodify themselves. I do not question the fact that some people do indeed enjoy being commodified and degraded. But those people are wrong.