2025-11-24.2_N Dickson on reality

“I don’t know how to contend with people who are always questing after a proof that can be washed clean of human interference, despite a historical record fraught with the disastrous results of ignoring the relationship between the observer and what they see. Nor have I had or seen much success in convincing class reductionists that difference is not an additive ingredient that should be swept aside in service of a purely class based approach to organising and analysing, that class is instantiated on the grounds of those very differences, which make up its living reality. And I cannot, after two years of trying, convince my father to say my name.”

• Nathaniel Dickson, Transgender Marxism, pg. 210