true liberation for queer people and ethnic minorities is a wholesale impossibility without the abolition of capitalism and the subsequent and immediate establishment of socialism
every class-based society in history has featured prominent bigoted views (e.g the relation between Christian Europe and Muslim North Africa in the Medieval era) and capitalism is no exception
even though modern capitalism has significantly moved away from the explicit and codified discriminatory practices of old, the exploitation of labour still necessitates the division of the working class along internal lines
thus, it remains beneficial for the Euro-Atlantic capitalist class to allow minority groups the right to work and produce surplus value, but not to experience the same social rights and dignities as the white, cishet plurality
in addition, the media influence of the capitalists allows for the peddling of defamatory and discriminatory works to further fragment working class solidarity from within
from this, we see that the struggle of the workers against the bourgeoisie goes hand in hand with the struggle of minorities against discrimination: in both circumstances, it is a form of conflict between the oppressor and oppressed
it is now also worth noting that bigotry is not a natural or inherent belief to any human being: to argue to the contrary would be to justify racism, sexism, homophobia, etc
therefore, it can be argued that, within a class society, such as capitalism, though it is possible to alleviate the worst suffering of minorities, it is not possible to completely end the discrimination against such groups
furthermore, a natural consequence of the establishment of socialism would be the end of bigotry and societal discrimination, as the class foundations upon which these beliefs are founded would cease to exist
this is not to say that the advancement of minority rights under capitalism is not a necessary or useful short-term goal
in fact, it is to say the opposite: namely that the uplifting of minorities advances the development of societal class consciousness, as the fictional lines upon which we are divided are broken down
the thesis I put forward is, then, that we cannot have intersectional liberation without socialism and we cannot have socialism with intersectional liberation: they are struggles that are so deeply intertwined that to separate them would be wholly counterproductive
