Call me crazy, but I'm working on a theory atm. Here's the draft. I've been inspired by the thoughts of Wub and The_wandering_mind. My regards to them wherever they are now. stares longingly at moon and sighs

Neither.

This identity politics 'war' if you can call it that, more like massive merry go round, was started by the elites to tear apart their subjects, the middle class who create theory challenging the system, and the working class who have the sheer man-power to, if they wish, incite revolution or put the workforce on strike. It's a tale as old as time, that's been raging since the earliest days of the Enlightenment. The peasantry and bourgeoisie vs. the aristocracy and monarchy.

You cannot come to any conclusion except Oppression Olympics operating within a Marxist paradigm. Feminism is essentially gender-specific Marxism. Replace proletariat with women and minorities, and the factory owners with cis white male.

By utilising our innate fears of the Other against us, they have launched the middle class and 'intellectuals' among us with time into an endless bickering match-predomiantly the timeless Conservatives vs. Liberals-which distracts us from those pulling the strings.

The working class can be placated by sensationalist media and worn down by the daily grind. Their needs on Maslow's pyramid are much lower and more immediate for survival, so they have less time to be contemplating the ethics or merits of such and such theory. They have little access to the higher echelons of education, and are in the UK at least reliant upon state-mandated National Curriculum. The are taught what to think, how to pass exams and keep stats of young people entering higher education or the workforce up, not how to think. Why? Because a high education rate=more votes for the party in power. In the past, peasants didn't even have access to education, they were illiterate and were reliant on word of mouth or trusting educated authorities such as their religious officials (we all know how that turned out!)

The middle class have more time to self-actualise and concern themselves with 'higher' matters, being well fed and sheltered, and historically have been the people who pondered. The lower middle class, the educated but self-made workers or bourgeoisie, sprang most of the ideas for our revolutions. The upper middle class always had the tastes of dining with the elite to corrupt their interests, but many critiqued the system themselves.

A large portion of the liberal middle class form the academic elites of the Cathedral, the professors in the ivory towers who determine what gets researched. Inevitably, what gets researched in the social sciences, liberal arts and Humanities is…well, something which fits in with a contemporary Marxist narrative. So in this case, SJW-ism, also known as intersectional feminism in its milder form.

The Cathedral determines what 'research' tells the working class public, which shapes social attitudes. Often the government elites will bribe the Cathedral into working on certain ideologies which fit with their manifesto/social and economic policies.It is very, very strongly in the interests of any country which signed the Geneva Convention and is part of the UN to conform to neo-liberal discourse. So, Human Rights. Pro-immigration. Multiculturalism. Cosmopolitanism. Political correctness.

In this case, Feminism is a massive cash cow now, not only covering women and sexism but racism, LGBTQ-rights, and to some extent the issues of all the needy and vulnerable. It fits perfectly into a contemporary Marxist framework-the late 2nd and 3rd wave having originated in the Frankfurt schools-allowing the government them to act concerned about, moral guardians their (basically) subjects, yet secretly keeping them against one another rather than seeking for revolution.

The people always need to have an enemy, a scapegoat. Without one, they will turn to their rulers, inevitably. It's much more efficient to turn them against themselves.

Law #31: Control the options. Make people play from the hand that you deal.

The powers that be have been playing this game for a long, long time now. You can call it patriarchy but that would be missing the point. Oppression is not about rich and powerful white men, it's about money and power, full stop.

There is one serious issue with all of this; Communism failed us. Marxism failed. Capitalism is imperfect, but what alternatives are there? I said earlier to a friend, they who can philosophise a both ethical and resource-efficient post-Marxist sociological explanation will be our next great thinker.

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