@lucymcaldwell well circumcision on literal newborns is bad and pointless and gender affirming care (which, unlike circumcision involves no dingaling slashing) for trans kids who say that they want to transition is good, so if anything it's kind of a false equivalence
@grain99806254@WxPolitics15 and your analysis begins and ends with reheated moldy 20th century stalinoid dogma while feeling self congratulatory about defeating a strawman
@grain99806254@WxPolitics15 what about what i posted suggests that I think power is a substance rather than relational? you keep putting words in my mouth and projecting what you think i believe rather than engaging with what i actually said
@grain99806254@WxPolitics15 or, maybe, power differentials take different forms according to the historical context in which it's wrought? I guess we can't talk about ancient social hierarchies and class systems that predated capitalism because marx didn't give you permission to use the anarkitty word
@grain99806254@WxPolitics15 it sounds like you're trying really hard to find a way to describe an uneven social relation (gasp!! a hierarchy!) without using the word lol. is your only issue semantic?
@grain99806254@WxPolitics15 Please read back to what I've actually claimed through this exchange. Did i claim hierarchy *caused* any particular thing or were my claims about hierarchy relational?
@grain99806254@WxPolitics15 is the extraction of surplus value a hierarchical relationship? or, to put it another way, do workers have less power than the capitalist in charge of the firm they work at?
@grain99806254@WxPolitics15 i never claimed hierarchy alone is a class, but hierarchy plus control over allocation and surplus is. also how is the teacher-student relationship not material? schools a site of discipline and punishment & it's also where classes reproduce themselves with a meritocratic mirage
@grain99806254@WxPolitics15 that's an appeal to tradition rather than an argument about why it's wrong for me to extend class categories to account for differential treatment and elite members of society in ostensibly non-capitalist countries. also how is hierarchy not a material relation lol
@grain99806254@WxPolitics15 man i wish i could be as self-assured and comforted by the thought terminating cliches and sloganeering religious zeal internet marxists seem to be infatuated with. must be fun to never worry about being wrong, armed with the immortal science of dialectical materialism