Oppression happens on more than one level. There are multiple levels in which oppression and injustice occur. Thus the oppressed are not just victims of racism, for example, but are victims of other evils, be it sexism or imperialism or homophobia or whatever else you want to add to the list.

The radical left always needs new bogeymen to have around, new enemies to oppose, and new evils to resist. For revolutionary ferment to be constantly stoked, new sources of oppression and injustice must be found so that people will always be in a constant state of agitation and discontent. Anything to keep the masses from actually enjoying life and all the benefits of living in the West.

This is where the new term intersectionality comes into play. To help us understand it, we could look at its academic background. We could examine the writings of Kimberlé Crenshaw for example, the American lawyer, scholar, philosopher, and founder of critical race theory.

A 1989 law paper written by her, “Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex,” was the genesis of the idea, and it was further promoted in a 1991 essay, “Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence against Women of Color.”

But behind all the tens of thousands of pages of academic discussion that now exist on this concept, we can explain it in quite simple terms: oppression happens on more than one level. There are multiple levels in which oppression and injustice occur. Thus the oppressed are not just victims of racism, for example, but are victims of other evils, be it sexism or imperialism or homophobia or whatever else you want to add to the list.

There is a never-ending list of evils that are out to get us, and there is a never-ending list of types of oppression. But one thing needs to be added here: basically there is ONE group and one group alone who is responsible for all this evil: White males – especially white male conservative Christians. They are the source of all evil. They are primarily the enemy.

So all this is simply a new spin on an old ideology. This is neo-Marxism, or Cultural Marxism. The original Marxists saw one main enemy: capitalism, and one main solution: socialism. Capitalists, the owners of the means of production – these were the bad guys. The workers, the proletariat – these were the good guys.

But Marx’s gospel of revolution never quite got off the ground. The spontaneous workers’ revolutions he predicted would spring up all over Europe never happened. This in large measure was because workers under capitalism actually found their lot improving. The lower classes moved up into the middle class, and those in the middle classes often rose to the upper classes – all thanks to the free market system.

So the cultural Marxists shifted from economics to the culture. Instead of focusing on the evils of economic class, they now focused on all sorts of other evils – real or imagined. Thus the radical sexual revolution erupted in the 60s, as did so many other radical movements, be it the black power movement, the feminist revolution, the homosexual movement, and so on.

Instead of having just one source of oppression, we now have lots of them! There is always plenty of fodder to keep feeding the revolution, in other words. We now have an endless stream of sources of hostility and oppression. In their crucial 2020 volume, Cynical Theories, Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay identify just some of these categories:

“In addition to those of race, sex, class, sexuality, gender identity, religion, immigration status, physical ability, mental health, and body size, there are subcategories, such as exact skin tone, body shape, and abstruse gender identities and sexualities, which number in the hundreds.”

All of which makes “intersectionality incredibly internally complex”. They go on to say this:

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