While multiculturalism can accommodate the ideal of equality between most self-identified social groups, the one persistent divide that creates the greatest difficulty is that of class. This is so because class is the foundational inequality necessary to the reproduction of capitalism.

David Harvey, The Enigma of Capital : And the Crises of Capitalism. (via djalykhan)

Yup. Class is fundamental. This is pretty much why I feel so put off by the notion of basing my politics specifically around feminism, especially identity oriented feminism, as a focal point. Feminism is helpful insomuch as it informs us about the specificities of relations within and between classes, and it obviously raises issues that demand attention, but feminism unmoored from a strong class analysis is useless (get yrself a vibrator gurl!)

Yes to intersectionality, of course. This might make me sound like a stolid old Marxist curmudgeon, and I might lose a few followers here, but class is really the most fundamental unit and intersectional analyses that leave it out or dance around it are just weak weak weak and incapable of forming any kind of penetrating or radical critique. They can go no further than asking for room for X within existing structures and can’t really say terribly much about how those structures work or indeed how they might be broken down.

(via rumagin)