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are you on our side or not? feminism should incorporate class analysis, but feminism cannot be reduced to class analysis, patriarchy will be a problem whether women are exploited by capitalism or some other economic system
I'm definitely on the side of marxist feminists (which is one of the bigger branches/theories in the feminist spaces), which is one of the major theories that is based on class analysis and one that recognizes how capitalism and patriarchy (which are not being conflated into one) are interconnected and support one another.
It's also opposed to bourgeois feminism, which might deliberately omit systemic causes behind oppression (see: the original post) and just aims to benefit women at the top while working class women get shafted.
Hope this answers what my stance is at least.
just a small tip, if you want to keep alliances with other feminists, criticizing them for targeting patriarchy and double standards between women and men as being "bourgeois" for not including class analysis is only going to alienate and work against the solidarity we need as a movement
I'm not sure everything you see as bourgeois feminism is as genuinely "bourgeois" or problematic as you think - it's not like the meme is perpetuating Sheryl Sandberg style thinking even if there is more that could be said about the situation.
Yeah, maybe you're right.
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Is it "bourgeois feminism," or just the inherent limitations of Twitter/Bluesky as a medium and its inability to provide extended context to thesis statements?