Imnecomrade

But I have since changed my mind after I saw for myself gender abolitionists who are ultimately transphobic, and they didn’t come to this conclusion by accident. Can we say that they are only using gender abolition to confirm their transphobic views?

I imagine these people are the same or close to those who say "they don't see color".

That’s why I don’t think it necessarily follows that gender itself is a product of oppression, which also puts into question whether it should be or will be abolished/wither away (not exactly the same thing for some abolitionists, but not all). The premise of the essay is that gender can exist without an oppressive structure. It also means it doesn’t automatically follow that abolishing gender (in any way) will also destroy the oppressive structure built around it and the answer must be found somewhere else for proper praxis.

In reference to my previous comment, by gender "withering away" in a communist state, I don't mean gender will not exist, just as race won't disappear. I mean the distinction between class won't be really relevant anymore (at least relevant in the case of exploitation and discrimination, though perhaps more in a far future society depending on the path we take (such as becoming machines or maybe becoming a gestalt consciousness)). A communist state will likely be in the distant future, a society we can only predict under science fiction. I imagine technology, social relations, cultural and social norms will evolve to a point we may not be able to perceive very well today. I imagine that we may have the ability to change our DNA, or maybe go through transhumanism and become cyborgs/machines, etc. The concept of gender may not be as relevant because people will be able to easily change to whatever they are comfortable with using future technology, and there will be cultural acceptance of everyone. There won't be a denial of trans/gender-fluid/non-conforming people, but it may be ubiquitous that the distinction and class differences/exploitation between people won't exist as it does today. Before then and when we are still developing in the early stages of socialism, we won't be "abolishing" or "withering away" gender, nor will gender completely not exist.

As for now, I agree that so-called "gender abolition" is irrelevant and out of scope at this time.

I had a similar thought that you put into words better than I would have done. I have seen "gender abolition" in a Marxist sense as the result of achieving a classless society where class (in any form, including gender) no longer exists and class exploitation is eliminated.

Yeah it's logarithmic because nobody should need over $2 million. You are stealing exponentially at billions of dollars.

I've been wanting an Ushanka. I already have a silver Lenin bust.

I have wanted to put original content on PeerTube as well, but it's hard with my computer situation and being busy all the time. I hope to see more comrades posting content on alternative platforms, especially exclusively. I'm worried about loss of educational digital media on private platforms like YouTube and Reddit as enshittification continues. I'm also worried about archive.org. I depend on it greatly. I hope we archive and preserve media as much as possible on other platforms before we inevitably lose them.

Kinda wish I spent more time with my coworkers and tried to work towards a union, even though I was a contractor. Not sure if I would have been successful because my coworkers were pretty right-wing and anti-union. Perhaps after trucking and after I save for and attend school and become an electrical engineer, I will try to talk to my coworkers more, organize board game nights or help support my coworkers when they need help in their personal lives, hopefully build solidarity and community, and eventually educate them and push them towards unionization.

There were some good tips in this blogpost I hadn't thought of, and it would have probably helped me in the past.

First, I am only meaning to provide my perspective, even if it turns out to be not perfect or 100% accurate to reality, and I am willing to be corrected or to learn from others. I'm not just some first worlder set in their ways.

I think you misunderstood some of the points I made, just as I interpreted freagle's point about AI wastefulness to be in a broader sense than it was. I don't believe AI as it exists now in the global capitalist system will liberate the third world. My guess is the ruling class's use of the AI will probably have a greater impact against the working class's interests than the impact the working class will have to counter AI through its own use. We have no control over AI's existence. It's a reality we have to live with. The only way AI would have an improvement on the working class's lives across the entire planet would be for a socialist system to become dominant across the world and the global capitalist hegemony to be overthrown.

I'm not denying the ruling class's use of AI is a much greater detriment to us than any gains we get from the weakening of the labor aristocracy. However, I believe as those people start losing their jobs, communist parties will need to start reaching out to them, educate them, and bring them to our cause so we can develop the numbers and power to overthrow the ruling class, which I believe is the upmost importance. I honestly don't believe most labor aristocrats, especially in the West, will be radicalized until they become proletarianized and their material conditions greatly worsen.