>other marginalisations exist compared to class, but not other "privileges". punishing deviation from a group is not the same thing as actively rewarding said group.on a long enough timeline the absence of marginalization is the presence of privilege insofar as the absence of punishment is its own reward. There are so many potential forms of marginalization in a given society. To name just a few: sex, gender identity, sexuality, ethnicity, race, language, nationality, religion, height, weight, musculature, physical ability, mental ability, developmental speed. There are many others. Most people are at least "deviant" in one category and "normality" is simply a statistical mean that almost nobody meets perfectly but most people hover around at a small distance due to their standard deviation from the mean. The few who do manage to tick all the boxes, or at least maintain the appearance of doing so, will be rewarded by the absence of social marginalization that would cripple them further. When most of society is getting punished for
standard deviation as well as
nonstandard deviation it will always be a minority who experience the
privilege of the absence of marginalization. This is made more compelling by the fact that many of these forms of deviation are nonvoluntary. One of the most obvious forms of non-voluntary marginalization: The patriarchal marginalization of cis women, has always happened to precisely half of society, meaning it is not even necessarily a "punishment for deviation" but just a marginalization in the absence of deviation. This marginalization is easy to maintain due to their vulnerability during pregnancy and child rearing and unpaid domestic labor, their statistical smaller size and musculature in addition making them statistically easier to physically coerce and commit violence against.
What makes class primary in Marxism isn't the (perhaps false) dichotomy of "privilege" (as reward) versus "marginalization" (as punishment for deviation) but the fact that class transcends these other marginalizations. Marginalized groups can find themselves in any class. Class is part of the economic base. Marginalization is part of the cultural superstructure. Base and superstructure are the precise terminology we use. The "wish-washy" liberal concepts that fail to produce a coherent analysis are analyses based in privilege and margi
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