All forms of discrimination are really just types of classism [View All]

Racism,
Discrimination based on gender,
Discrimination based on religion,
Discrimination based on nationality,
Discrimination based on sexual orientation,
Discrimination based on native language,
Discrimination based on age,
Discrimination based on performance on a "test",
Discrimination based on appearance...

... all of these are subsets of the same thing: classism.

Each one is an attempt to separate a particular person or group of people from the existing power/money/ownership structure in a society or location. The power structure finds something in them to reject them over, and thus exclude them from the power structure. In Georgian England, for example, it could have been merely the accusation that "he is daft" or that "she is simply not suitable."

To attack one of these individually is about as effective as cutting off one branch of a large tree. The root of all of them is the class structure of a society, and that structure is built upon money-power-control-ownership. Money and power are two forms of the same entity, like matter and energy.

The fundamental struggle is a class struggle. This is why the American right wing is quick to denounce "class warfare" as if class warfare has no place in American politics. Yet, everything the right wing does is class warfare, for their class. Sorry if I'm starting to sound like a Marxist. But Marx was right: the fundamental struggle IS a class struggle, even in 2005, and these little battles are just facets of the class struggle.