I wonder how Karl Marx would analyse the current Swedish situation where most of the university graduates and working-class women are democratic reform socialists, most of the working-class men are fascists, and nobody is a revolutionary socialist anymore.

It's quite clear though why the fascists hate academic #gender studies so much.

#svpol #marxism #socialism #academia

"The State was the official representative of society as a whole; the gathering of it together into a visible embodiment. But, it was this only in so far as it was the State of that class which itself represented, for the time being, society as a whole:

in ancient times, the State of slaveowning citizens;
in the Middle Ages, the feudal lords;
in our own times, the bourgeoisie."

–Frederick Engels, "Socialism: Utopian and Scientific"

#socialism #communism #capitalism #marxism