This strikes me as reactionary rhetoric. Trying to tie exclusive binary gender to Marxist materialist analysis is a weird gloss.
> On Jan 10, 2021, at 12:24 PM, Charles Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > > > http://take10charles.blogspot.com/2019/05/gender-as-social-objective-reality.html > > Labor Power > Thursday, May 2, 2019 > Gender as social objective reality > All human societies , not just capitalism , have gender starting with the > first humans 100,000's of years ago. It is a defining characteristic of our > species. > > Engels , in _The Origin of the (male supremacist) Family , Private Property > and the State_, correctly says that before civilization in the Stone Age > there was no male supremacy but equality between women and men. Modern > anthropology confirms this. > > Marxists are for abolition of male supremacy , not binary gender. Binary > gender assigned based on sex , which is absolutely binary , is a fundamental > human right and universal human culture. > > Gender is assigned _by society_ , not based on subjective feelings of > individuals , but based on objective biological characteristics . > > Social constructs are materialist . Individual subjective constructs , > constructs based on subjective feelings are subjective idealist . Designating > ones own gender based on subjective feelings is subjective idealism . > > Most of humans' material environment is socially construct > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#5391): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/5391 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/79580220/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
