2025-12-06_class and intersectionality

class is (like) intersectionality. intersectionality is (like) class.

class, like intersectionality, when witnessed and analyzed not in the abstract but in it’s material manifestations in the world, is infinitely* complex. the effective boundaries between superstructure and economic base are porous and shifting. the ways where, how and when class can become a real social categorization are endless and they span and intersect with all other categories of (human-animal) existence.

if our goal is to better the world, universalizing class (or intersectionality, or any other reality) is always a mistake if we fall into the age old trap of universalism as reductionism. universal means all-encompassing, all-encompassing means infinite, infinite means unruly, unruly means often beyond our a priori (and ex post) understandings of the world and the social relationships with/in it.

those trying to fit all of their analysis into one abstract and limited concept, be it class or intersectionality, no matter how open and flexible they interpret it to be, must let go of the final comfort of universalism as reductionism in order to truly serve and be one of the people. the infinitely complex people, who will be liberated only by their endless revolution.

* concepts such as infinite and endless in this text are always and only so in relation to the existential-perceptual capacities of our bodies.