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⦁ Homophobia, the insistence that exclusive same sex attraction is wrong and in need of "re-education";

⦁ Prostitution. Though they claim to support trans-identifying people, the liberals are in favour of decriminalising pimps and johns, who committed 62% of "transphobic" murders worldwide last year against their prostituted victims.

That a movement with these material aims has the gall to describe itself as "left" or "antifascist" shows how incoherent the language in this debate has become.

We need a return to materialism in order to clearly describe our material conditions. As it stands, our liberal enemies have even co-opted communist language and imagery to the point where the general public believe that gender ideology is at all compatible with communism - one only needs to scroll through Twitter to see the profiles with "preferred pronouns" alongside a performative hammer and sickle. Postmodernism and liberalism have damaged the Left in ways that the overt anticommunists of old could only have dreamed of, and the Right is capitalising on it. Only through engaging with all the opportunities we have to put the case for Marxist feminism, can we revive it.

Forty years ago Angela Davis wrote about ‘the approaching obsolescence of housework’

‘A substantial portion of the housewife’s domestic tasks can actually be incorporated into the industrial economy. In other words, housework need no longer be considered necessarily and unalterably private in character. Teams of trained and well-paid workers, moving from dwelling to dwelling, engineering technologically advanced cleaning machinery, could swiftly and efficiently accomplish what the present-day housewife does so arduously and primitively.’

*Women, Race and Class (London: The Women’s Press Ltd, 1981):