thepeoplesfriend:

proletarianprincess:

see while we’re having this discussion about marx being racist but it didnt transfer to his work so we can still use his work, just wondering if you all think its okay he hated sex workers. like he never took back his shit about the lumpenproletariat. this isnt even a post about Marx Is Problematic And We Must Abandon Him its about people saying personal attitudes are different to their theory, so im curious why you ignore marx’s respectability politics against sex workers and anyone who wasnt a worker in the typical sense. is it cause we arent important? lmao

Like honestly that’s a thing that he should be attacked on and I think that the whole lumpenproletariat thing is a crock of fucking shit and led the way to a focusing of the definitions of proletariat over cross-‘class’ action. I honestly wish he was hit on that a lot more

In all the Marx I’ve read had him classing us (SWs) as proles?  Engles was shitty on that point.