Trans Liberation & Marxism: Is Gender Identity Actually Anti-Materialist? | Let's Talk Patriarchy

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Is being Trans "idealist"? Let's take a Marxist, dialectical materialist look at the situation.
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Recommended Socialism101 Videos on Dialectical Materialism, Historical Materialism and Contradiction (watch in the following order):

#1 "What is Dialectical Materialism? | Socialism 101 ft. The Peace Report":    • What is Dialectical Materialism? | Sociali...  
#2 "What is Historical Materialism? | Socialism 101":    • What is Historical Materialism? | Socialis...  
#3 "What Is Contradiction? | Socialism 101"    • What Is Contradiction? | Socialism 101 #10  

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Further Recommended Reading:

Friedrich Engels (1884), "Origins of the Family, Private Property, and the State": https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx...

Friedrich Engels (1880), "Socialism: Utopian and Scientific": https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx...

Red Star - Switzerland (2020), "Marxism and Queer Emancipation": https://the-red-flag.org/en/red-star-...
NEW LINK: https://die-rote-fahne.org/en/red-sta...

Five Essays on Philosophy – Mao Zedong (SUPPORT FOREIGN LANGUAGE PRESS!): https://foreignlanguages.press/colorf...

Mao Zedong (1963), "Where Do Correct Ideas Come From?": https://www.marxists.org/reference/ar...

Mao Zedong (1937), "On Practice": https://www.marxists.org/reference/ar...

Mao Zedong (1937), "On Contradiction": https://www.marxists.org/reference/ar...

Mao Zedong (1957), "On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People" : https://www.marxists.org/reference/ar...


Final Recommendation for a Useful Set of Essays (from various left-wing tendencies):

Jules Joanne Gleeson & Elle O'Rourke (eds.) (2021) "Transgender Marxism": https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745341...

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Quote Sources (in order of appearance):

#1 - 4: Friedrich Engels (1884), "Origins of the Family, Private Property, and the State": https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx...


#5 - 12: Red Star - Switzerland (2020), "Marxism and Queer Emancipation": https://the-red-flag.org/en/red-star-...

#13: Friedrich Engels (1880), "Socialism: Utopian and Scientific", chapter 2: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx...

#14: Mao Zedong (1963), "Where Do Correct Ideas Come From?": https://www.marxists.org/reference/ar...

#15: Red Star - Switzerland (2020), "Marxism and Queer Emancipation": https://the-red-flag.org/en/red-star-...

#16: The Red Flag (2021), "Political Reaction All Along the Line: A Letter to the Editorial Board of "Struggle Sessions"": https://the-red-flag.org/en/political...

#17: Che Guevara (1965), in "Che Guevara speaks: Selected Speeches and Writings" (1967),

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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro: “Trans Ideology” and Materialism
02:45 All Materialism, No Dialectics
04:23 To action, comrades!
04:52 Queer Emancipation & Marxist Theory
06:22 The Origin of Patriarchy
10:14 “The Defeat of the Female Sex”
12:12 Queer Oppression Historically
16:18 Queer Oppression Under Capitalism
17:41 The Basis for Queer Oppression
18:51 Materialism: Metaphysical or Dialectical?
21:59 From Matter to Consciousness and Back Again: The Marxist Theory of Knowledge
23:16 Sexual Metaphysics
25:55 Fighting Transantagonism with Mechanical Materialism?
27:18 Conclusion: Is Trans Identity Idealist?
28:43 Acknowledgements + Further Reading
30:16 Credits