My take on angry young women in the new statesman #british #brittok #uk #women #men

Last week I was in the cover article of The New Statesman because the establishment is rattled. It was called Angry Young Women and reads as a hit piece against young, educated, white women who recognize the intersectionality and interconnectedness of all global liberation struggles. For far too long, people who look like me have held up the patriarchy, white supremacy, imperialism, colonialism, because ultimately we stand to benefit. More so than our sisters and brothers in the global south. But now a mass we are waking up and understanding that we are both complicit in and depressed by these same systems. Capitalism was birth in England from mercantilism, which was the mode of production which preceded capitalism. Under mercantilism there was trading, there was commerce, there was markets, none of these things designate capitalism. Capitalism is the private ownership of the means of production. Think land, factories and natural resources. Capitalism is a cancer that grew from the UK because of something called the enclosure acts. Previously the commoners were able to use common land to subsist themselves by grazing their animals and farming. But after the enclosure acts, the commoners were no longer able to access their means of subsistence as it was taken into private hands the hands of the aristocracy. These new laws to expropriate the land from the commoners were violently enforced by militia and armies. So as the commoners were removed from their means of subsistence they were forced on mass into wage labour. However during this same time new laws were implemented to functionally exclude women from wage labour. I mean they had to attach themselves to a man through marriage who was able to wage labour in order to be able to subsist themselves. At the same time contraception and abortion were heavily criminalised which coincided with the reproductive crimes used as the pretext for the witch hunts. So as the land was being expropriated from the commoners so was women's bodily autonomy expropriated from them. The patriarchy itself is designed to control women's reproductive capacity and capitalism is an outgrowth of this. Under capitalism the means of production and reproduction are privately owned outside of the control of those who labour them. During the enclosure acts natural resources were taken away from the commoners and women's bodies were designated as a natural resource to be controlled by men and the state. It's not surprising that the same people and systems that were able to implement this dehumanising legislation on their own people were also able to implement it on people abroad. It's another example of the imperial boomerang. None of these systems are oppression are natural they have to be violently enforced and what this article was was verbal violence which is the only type of violence which they can actually enact towards white women in the current state of things in the UK. I'm outspoken I'm 30 this kind of thing doesn't bother me but some of the women here included in this article might not feel that same way. Some of the women in this article have had their own lived experience tied against them and used to this smudge the entire global struggle for liberation. Just know that if you're an angry young woman then the Epstein class is terrified of you. They don't want us to know our power. The reason why the patriarchy has existed for all this time is to ensure that we don't understand that we choose whether there's a next generation of wage slaves or not. That really now because we have some semblance of bodily autonomy in some parts of the world we are the only people that need to be appeased otherwise everything goes down in one generation. We are the most dangerous people in society because we hold the keys to the future of this nation and of this planet. I'm not telling you what to do but we can choose whether there's another generation of oppressors within the imperial core.