'Better Than You': Karl Marx Would Recognize Transgenderism As A Material Class

Make the enemy play by his own set of rules

Karl Marx is a tool.

No, relax, I am not insulting the great prophet of communism, peace be upon him.

I am describing the use of Marx to understand history.

For all his faults, Marx knew what a woman is. In fact, dimorphic biology was the fundamental unit of capitalism in his analysis: woman as the first property, a reality of his 19th Century world, seemingly a thing as old as time, at a time when literal people-as-property was still a thing in the “civilized world,” and people struggled to imagine a different world.

A better world.

Feminists like Marxist analysis because it works very well for analyzing patriarchy to imagine a better world.

For example, radical feminists were the very first people to call out the contradictions inherent to transgenderism, earning the sobriquet “TERFs” by resisting a male colonization of feminism.

Analyzing “trans women are women” as a material sex class phenomenon, they saw patriarchy putting on lipstick and wigs and calling it progressive. TERFs have b…