As of today, Pablo Hasel, a catalan Communist rapper, has spent 900 days in prison for “promoting terrorism” and “spreading lies about the king” in his songs.
So, here’s thread of all my favorite songs by him so that his words continue to travel freely even if he can’t 🧵:
“Juan Carlos El Bobón”, one of the songs that landed him in prison, is a diss track against the former king of Spain calling him out for his sympathies for fascism and (allegedly) killing his older brother to become king
“Ni Felipe VI” is a released around the time of his imprisonment where he talks about the brutal Spanish oligarchy and state, and the troubles of the proletariat under Spanish society, and how he’s being persecuted for speaking about these truths.
“Asi no podemos” a scalding critique of the establishment “left” and “progressives” (Podemos, PSOE) who have abandoned all class struggle after joining the Spanish ruling class in the Cortes General
Marxismo-Leninismo (Comunista II)
This is the second part of one of his songs, and through long it’s one of my favorites because he outlines ML theory and why it’s relevant to the masses
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this is what i mean when I say that women part of the ruling class are oppressed (not as much as working class women) by class society. In the case of feudalism, they’re solely seen as wombs to carry heirs of private property so they’re sold off to breed within their class
the suffer abuse, marital rape, and isolation. And are taught by class society (which has a vested interest in keeping working/peasant class and ruling class woman subjugated) that this is “normal”, “right” and in more recent years “empowering”
ultimately though, despite how much they suffer due to class society, ruling class women will overwhelmingly choose class society over socialist revolution because they are willing to sacrifice their liberation and the liberation of all women for the wealth their families hoard.
stop reading the word “proletarian” as “white” the majority of the proletariat is not white and the majority of communist movements and socialist experiments have happened in the third world, and that is clearly reflected in proletarian feminist literature and movements
arguably the most important proletarian feminist to date is Anuradha Ghandy and the greatest proletarian feminist minds in the United States have predominantly been black women. Pointing out that there has been white chauvinism in proletarian movements, however, is very valid
When criticizing intersectionality I specifically was criticizing the liberal and idealist ideology that many intersectional feminists have in favor of a tradition that like intersectionality places importance on how racism, queerphobia,etc make proletarian women suffer even more
The CRC were socialists who largely built off of Marxist tradition to describe interlocking systems of oppression and Davis is a ML who emphasizes the importance of class consciousness when it comes to fighting for the liberation of black women and other oppressed minorities, yes
these women’s work has gone on to influence both proletarian feminists, left-wing black organizers, and liberal feminists like Crenshaw who was influenced by their work to create the theory of intersectionality in legal studies. Correct.
What does this have up to with my critique of mainstream intersectionality as developed by Crenshaw, a liberal, which both treats class like an identity and not a relationship between a person and the means of production and - as a legal studies theory - falls short in
There’s a misunderstanding of my preference towards proletarian feminism as being “class reductionist” instead of based on its understanding on how material and historical factors such as capitalism has used patriarchy, misogynoir, etc as a tool for the subordination of-
proletarian women, and the class interests behind sexism and racism/queerphobia/ableism/etc that are behind these violent beliefs as well as advocates for women’s total liberation through means of revolution, whereas intersectionality is again a legal framework-
which makes a lot of important observations that are influenced by early black Marxist feminism as well as womanist thinkers but since it’s purpose is to understand and point them out in legal and social settings and *tends* reformism (doesn’t mean all self described-