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Essentially title. When analyzing something, in this case I was thinking of toxic masculinity, how do I not just reduce the issue to "it's just capitalism" or "it's a class issue"?

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[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Class analysis has to be slightly stretched to account for how class interacts with the colonizer and the colonized. Like Fanon says: "The economic infrastructure is also a superstructure. The cause is effect: You are rich because you are white, you are white because you are rich." You get white workers who still side with bosses against their fellow indigenous or migrant or other minority workers, and they are rewarded for it with wages and benefits even if they don't ever actually change their class status. That's not just false consciousness, they materially benefit from their privileged caste in the colonial situation.