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This is intended as a question asked totally out of interest, and with no judgement implied, whatever your answers.
It goes out to all the people on my flist who identify as being interested, invested, involved or activists in one or more of the following areas:
Okay, my question is: if you are interested in one or more (or all) of the previous areas, do you also see yourself as being interested in or invested in what I'll describe, for a want of a better word, as "worker's" issues? Class issues? This includes any interest in any of the following or any areas you think are related: the trade union movement, nationalisation of industry and services, classism, social mobility, industrial action (including tomorrow's mail strike), worker solidarity, anticapitalism, the minimum wage, minimum work standards, unemployment, redistribution of resources. The rights, representation, history and identity of the working class throughout history and in popular culture.
Do you view the issues as linked or not? As a couple of examples: do you see any connection between, say, fighting racism and building a strong trade union movement? Do you view feminism and anticapitalism as being connected in any way or on any kind of continuum?
There's no wrong answer here. I will listen respectfully to any and all answers, I'm really just interested in hearing what people think.
It goes out to all the people on my flist who identify as being interested, invested, involved or activists in one or more of the following areas:
- Tackling homophobia and heterocentrism. LGBT or queer rights, identity, representation
- Tackling racism and white privilege. The representation, rights and identity of people of colour and ethnic minorities (or majorities, as loneraven recently pointed out.) Anti-fascism.
- Tackling sexism and misogny. Feminism. The representation of women in the public sphere.
- The rights, representation and identity of people who have disabilities.
- Fighting discrimination against and fighting for the rights, representation and identity of people who are concieved of as "Others" in the public sphere or popular culture who I have left off this list.
Okay, my question is: if you are interested in one or more (or all) of the previous areas, do you also see yourself as being interested in or invested in what I'll describe, for a want of a better word, as "worker's" issues? Class issues? This includes any interest in any of the following or any areas you think are related: the trade union movement, nationalisation of industry and services, classism, social mobility, industrial action (including tomorrow's mail strike), worker solidarity, anticapitalism, the minimum wage, minimum work standards, unemployment, redistribution of resources. The rights, representation, history and identity of the working class throughout history and in popular culture.
Do you view the issues as linked or not? As a couple of examples: do you see any connection between, say, fighting racism and building a strong trade union movement? Do you view feminism and anticapitalism as being connected in any way or on any kind of continuum?
There's no wrong answer here. I will listen respectfully to any and all answers, I'm really just interested in hearing what people think.