Via @Miisaakan in Transgender Marxism
LGßTQ+ Oppression = Mechanism of Capitalist Domination:
“Understanding oppression against the LGßTQ+ sectors is to understand a mechanism of capitalist domination based on the economics of seχual misery.”
“This hetero- and cɪsnormative order imposes a binary division of gender and seχuality tied to biological reproduction. This process is the basis of the reactionary morality of the religious institutions that campaign openly against our lives.”
Capitalism → Seχual Repression:
“Beyond the front lines where we trαns revolutionaries stand, capitalism also inflicts brutal seχual repression on the whole of the working class”
“This results in illnesses, unwanted pregnancies, and numerous restrictions on one’s own bodies and desires. Those brought in line by the capitalist order suffer in their own fashion, fostering reservoirs of resentment and self-loathing consistently drawn on by right-wing movements.”
Denaturalizing ‘Normal’:
“Control over others’ bodies, the imposition of binary genders pre-defined by genitalia, heteronormative seχuality, and cɪsgender conformity are not ‘natural’.”
“These norms are at the service of a specific economic system, which favours a specific social class that organises society (and consequently its morality) to serve its own class interests.”
“This is how permanent seχual repression under capitalism fulfils various roles in the relation between oppression and exploitation.”
Capitalism destroys pleasure, constructs the ‘deviant other’:
“Capitalism, resting on centuries-old institutions such as the patriarchal family and religious dogma that espouse misogynistic, homophobic, and seχist prejudices, aims to transform seχ into an almost pleasureless routine act with the sole purpose of reproduction.”
“Genitalization is destined to remove from the body its function of reproducing pleasure to convert it into an instrument of alienated production, by only seχualising what is indispensable for reproduction.”
“That is why the system condemns with special severity all forms of seχual activity other than the introduction of the ρenis into the vαgina, considered ‘perversions’, pathological deviations, etc.”
