In the early industrial era, working conditions were nothing short of traumatic, and because of widescale child labor, many people were exposed to them from a very early age. This brutality imposed a proletarian identity onto the masses, and politics were defined until very recent times by the struggle between the "productive" and the "unproductive."
Socialists defined the productive as working class people, and the unproductive as the parasitical, bloodsucking bourgeoisie who largely just profiteered off the labor of others (though not being without their own merits from a Marxist perspective).
On the other hand, capitalists did a dialectical magic trick and juxtaposed "productive plutocrats and aspirational, often debt-ridden, middle class hard working folks who are just temporarily embarrassed billionaires/millionaires" with "unproductive welfare leeches" (i.e., those workers employed at starvation wages by capitalist corporations and then subsidized by the state).
Now all of these fascinating political tendencies are receding into history, and it's mainly because labor in the West has become benign. At most, people consider their jobs a waste of time now, and not a matter of life or death.
But just as the economic marketplace has become relatively anodyne and nothing to really get worked up over -- an annoying "groundhog day" at worst where you'll always wake up the next morning -- the "sexual marketplace" has reached levels of dog-eat-dog competition and brutal deprivation and winner-take-all dynamics that parallel the economic conditions of early industrialism. It is not guaranteed that you'll wake up next to a sexual partner the next morning, despite all your best efforts today.
Women who get raped by psychopathic Chads become feminists in frustration, not unlike workers at risk of being laid off (heh) forming a union and organizing against their boss. They want to have their way with their boss/Chad, or else drive him away and get him in trouble. They will begin hating all capitalists/all men despite the fact that most "capitalists" as such are humble peddlers and small shop owners and farmers (sub8s) who aren't deleterious at all, and these will ironically be the most harmed by their efforts.
Sub8 men who get no women turn to radical political organizations, not unlike unemployed workers who have nothing to live for and nothing to lose. They are immiserated by the nature of their work/"self-improvement" and how hard they have to apply themselves just to get the bare minimum/make ends meet.
And then some sub8 men and feminist women embrace weird offshoots of radicalism which only serve to ultimately reinforce the status quo (some forms of "fascism" and transgenderism are analogues here, as well as "anarcho-communism" and fat positive feminism).
It is over.
Socialists defined the productive as working class people, and the unproductive as the parasitical, bloodsucking bourgeoisie who largely just profiteered off the labor of others (though not being without their own merits from a Marxist perspective).
On the other hand, capitalists did a dialectical magic trick and juxtaposed "productive plutocrats and aspirational, often debt-ridden, middle class hard working folks who are just temporarily embarrassed billionaires/millionaires" with "unproductive welfare leeches" (i.e., those workers employed at starvation wages by capitalist corporations and then subsidized by the state).
Now all of these fascinating political tendencies are receding into history, and it's mainly because labor in the West has become benign. At most, people consider their jobs a waste of time now, and not a matter of life or death.
But just as the economic marketplace has become relatively anodyne and nothing to really get worked up over -- an annoying "groundhog day" at worst where you'll always wake up the next morning -- the "sexual marketplace" has reached levels of dog-eat-dog competition and brutal deprivation and winner-take-all dynamics that parallel the economic conditions of early industrialism. It is not guaranteed that you'll wake up next to a sexual partner the next morning, despite all your best efforts today.
Women who get raped by psychopathic Chads become feminists in frustration, not unlike workers at risk of being laid off (heh) forming a union and organizing against their boss. They want to have their way with their boss/Chad, or else drive him away and get him in trouble. They will begin hating all capitalists/all men despite the fact that most "capitalists" as such are humble peddlers and small shop owners and farmers (sub8s) who aren't deleterious at all, and these will ironically be the most harmed by their efforts.
Sub8 men who get no women turn to radical political organizations, not unlike unemployed workers who have nothing to live for and nothing to lose. They are immiserated by the nature of their work/"self-improvement" and how hard they have to apply themselves just to get the bare minimum/make ends meet.
And then some sub8 men and feminist women embrace weird offshoots of radicalism which only serve to ultimately reinforce the status quo (some forms of "fascism" and transgenderism are analogues here, as well as "anarcho-communism" and fat positive feminism).
It is over.
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