Some Thoughts
The capitalist system is ruled more by brazen predation than by good old-fashioned labor exploitation. Capitalists increasingly rely on raw political power to coercively secure capital through everything from rents to cheap government-provided capital – a means of extracting surplus that looks a lot more like feudalism.
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Gender rights are extremely democratic so they threaten authoritarian regimes that rely on traditional, unequal gender roles, heteronormativity, and especially the cult of masculinity. Gender hierarchy implied by “traditional values” contributes to many other social hierarchies which can be naturalized through gendered metaphors. If it is agreed the the “masculine” should be superior, it may
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Ideology is not just political doctrine. What we are able to think, imagine, and say is a critical political issue. The dominant set of ideas, hegemony, conforms to the dominance of the ruling class while not being about the ruling class. Whoever controls language controls politics.
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Cruises are for people who get excited by the presence of jumbo prawns at the buffet. Most baffling is that anyone, post-Covid, goes on a cruise at all.