Delta-9 Tetrahydrocannabinol wrote:I would love to ask the Lefties on NS this question. Those things “highly intersectional identities” that have a hard time find accepting from the communities they belong to for various reasons turning to political and philosophical individualism as a source of defending their validity? I’ve found that political and philosophical individualism to be the best solution for those with “highly intersectional identities”.
For example, I face mass rejection from my LGBT community due to my body size, my personal appearance, my politics and many other things. So, rather than what I did before, become an anti-LGBT bigot, I adopted a more individualist perspective on life and politics.
The class struggle is a socioeconomic issue and by necessity requires intersectionality. You can't argue that the issues of say, one race of people come before the issues of the working class, or vice versa. They have to come along hand-in-hand in regards to creating positive, lasting change for everyone. This doesn't mean circumventing the idea of individuality, but rather reinforcing it AND the collective all at once; on the individual level in regards to a more egalitarian social culture, wherein people are accepted for who they are regardless of who they are, whether they're a different race, sex, religion, etc., and at the collective level in regards to a more egalitarian economic condition, so that issues like poverty and economic class are done away with.