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Feminism and Astrology (hexbear.net)

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I don't understand why there are so many people who consider themselves "Marxist feminists", but at the same time are distracted by astrology.

The origin of feminism is working class, and as a working class movement, it is materialist. I don't know if they at least know what dialectical materialism is, since they don't see such an abysmal contradiction between astrology (pseudoscience) and feminism (materialism).

They remind me of the liberal “feminist” Gloria Steinem.

And the same with some anarchists.

What do you think about it?

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Anti-patriarchal aspects of witchcraft, as others have eloquently stated here already. Also on some level it's a chicken/egg thing as some point, as girl power culture (I'm sure there's a term for that) embraces certain hobbies and interests. For every girl that seems to embrace dangerous woo-woo shit, there's thirty more that just wanna have fun.

I may have my biases as a former Wiccan, though.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There's a lot of good history on this in the book, Caliban and the Witch. Witchcraft, mysticism, and astrology were interests, tools, and spaces for women to oppose the church-patriarchy.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Ahh, there's another book for my growing tbr list. 😅

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

There's an audiobook recorded of it on youtube and torrents. Its a great Marxist history of the transition from feudalism to capitalism in western europe.