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Respecting women is revolutionary
As we have argued elsewhere, transgender people constitute a social group which is under attack by the reactionary wing of the bourgeoisie. The very conditions – ie, the family-form and its ideological expressions – which generate the exploitation and oppression of women are also conditions which produce the oppression of transgender people. As a result, transgender people ought to be allies of the proletarian feminist struggle, which is also to say, allies of the proletarian class struggle against capitalism and in the fight for proletarian dictatorship. We must be able to draw transgender people into the communist movement by analyzing and demystifying the conditions which produce their oppression while concretely demonstrating that only the defeat of capitalism can lead to securing their democratic rights. This is a unified struggle which requires solidarity rather than division.