Think she styled herself after Harry Potter because of JKR’s views on gender?
“This man from the 19th century who didn’t know the word ‘transgender’ would not have respected your pronouns. and it is for this reason that I will not either.”
Dialectical materialism means you view everything through the lens of it being 1848.
I’m curious how aware of trans culture Marx would’ve been. Afaik, Berlin and Paris were lgbt Meccas by the 1920s-30s, which likely didn’t come out of nowhere, but of course a lot can change in like 50 years.
Sadly Marx and Engels were both massive homophobes:
“That is really a very odd ‘Urning’ you just sent me. Those are just unveilings being extremely against nature. The pederasts begin counting themselves and find that they are forming a power within the state. Only an organisation was missing, but according to this it seems to be already existing in the secret. And as they are counting so important men within all the old parties and even in the new ones, from Rösing to Schweitzer, their victory is inevitable. ‘Guerre aux cons, paix aux trous de cul’ it will go now. It is only a luck that we personally are too old to have to fear, this party gaining victory, to have to pay bodily tribute to the victors. But the young generation! By the way, only possible in Germany that a guy like that appears, translates the dirt into a theory and invites: introite, and so on. Unfortunately he was not yet as courageous as to confess openly being ‘That’, and still has to operate coram publico ‘from the front’ even though not ,from the front into as he once says by mistake. But first wait until the new North-German penal law has acknowledged the droits de cul then it will turn out quite differently. As for poor people from the front like us, with our childish favour for women, things will be going badly enough. If one could make use of that Schweitzer, it was to elicit from this strange man of honour the personal details of the high and the highest ranging pederasts, what surely would not be difficult for him as a congenial person…”
(Marx Engels Werke vol.32 -German edition - p. 324/5. Engels to Marx, June 22, 1869)
Sorry to be the one to share this with you. There’s a lot of other nasty shit in their letters as well. Kill your heroes and all that.
Marx and Engels may have been homophobic, but they did write that people in a socialist world would probably have a completely different view of love than either of them. Moreover, they also wrote about gender roles being socially constructed in “On the origin of the family, Private Property, and the State”.
Plus, I’m pretty sure Marx never wrote anything condemning "Bourgeois Identity Politics.
There’s a section in “Family, Private Property, and the State” where Engels refers to “the abominable crime of sodomy” so there is a valid case for calling him homophobic. However, that didn’t affect any of their political projects and is more of a matter of what they personally thought. This is probably because they lived about 100 years before there was any kind of movement for gay people.
Also, that text you’re talking about has Engels refer to Urning (a term for gay people) as Pederasts.
Here’s a great summary of it: https://ufmrg.files.wordpress.com/2017/11/wolf-mrg-article-1.pdf
I saw a couple of her other posts and she definitely doesn’t have the patience or subtlety to dog whistle. Apparently she got in trouble with her department for “calling out” someone discussing TERFs. Where do TERFs find the confidence to do shit like this? As a PhD student I don’t even point out typos from guest speakers.
to be fair, I think that’s just the default wojack and not something she added. not saying she isn’t a dick, or a reactionary, or transphobe, but yeah.
I don’t think the nerd rage one was But I’m not going to continue carrying water for transphobes just to nitpick.
“Anti-idpol Marxist” means “Gender Critical” which means “TERF” which means “a White Supremacist, soon™”. This is such a weird group of people.
