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socialist_n_TN

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10. Good post. Yes, class IS the "universal" intersection, but.......

Reply to forjusticethunders (Reply #5)

Tue Aug 9, 2016, 09:58 AM

Aug 2016

to ignore the way that identity affects oppression in the various groups, ignores objective realities. And ignoring objective realities is NOT a Marxist trait. All Marxist analysis has to start with the objective reality of any situation.

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