so does power and hierarchy. and inequality along class lines certainly existed too, just slightly different from what we experience today.

i take the position of class being the central expression of power and the underlying method of oppression. the article above actually goes to show how all other kinds of injustices will beome more or less impotent, and their grip on social reality much loosened, if capital was abolished.

i tend to think all the other kinds of oppression listed are secondary, superficial “effects” stemming from, and added onto, the basic and primary structural backdrop of class inequity under which we all toil. and it is important to recognize them as such, because the role they play in the struggle, more than anything else, is that of befuddlement and confusion…