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  • Also more deeply, gender and patriarchy (which includes cishetnormativity) are load-bearing parts of the superstructure. The family, particularly the nuclear family, is a microcosm of capitalist exploitation, reduced to a small private unit in which patriarchs take the role of the ruling class. Queer liberation is an essential part of the struggle against capitalism, all contradictions must be heightened to their breaking point for the system to undergo its transformation.

  • To add to this, Capitalism directly benefits from "traditional family values" where everyone is straight, reproducing, no abortions, women stay at home raising children via their unpaid labor, etc. As grim as it sounds, children to the capitalist system are just future workers ready to be exploited, so any movement that even remotely threaten to make a dent in that (abortion rights, queer rights, women's liberation) get demonized and are vehemently fought against.

    There's a reason why the current pro-natalist movement is getting quite strong nowadays, and if you look at who supports and promotes them, 99% of the time its business owners.

  • This space gives me the life that the ever-present tankie-versus-liberal fight elsewhere on lemmy is constantly trying to steal.

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