Sorry

Joe & Bing - Summer Sound (1971)

Survivors of sexual assault often have an “inability” to separate sex and violence. But rather than pathologizing them and treating their experience as essentially delusional, revolutionary feminism recognizes this as real and revealing of something systemic.

Sex is how we practice it; is how it affects the people involved. And right now that practice is saturated with violence and economic and political power disparities. This does not preclude the possibility that sex could be equitable in a different kind of society. But that’s not the society we live in right now, and that’s the point. That’s why we need to change it.

If recognition of this fact inherently leads to moralizing at or shaming individuals for sometimes enjoying sex, then we would also expect Marxism in general to inevitably devolve into shaming of individual workers for sometimes enjoying their jobs.

Likewise, if the only solution ostensibly forwarded by revolutionary feminism is to tell individuals not to have sex, then we would also expect Marxism in general to be incapable of telling workers to do anything more than “just don’t show up to work.”