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Accepting that class is as contingent as any other oppression makes it easier to imagine a world without it. Class-first leftism, in fetishizing the materiality of class over other oppressions, makes it harder to accomplish the changes that the left claims to want.

The toxic cocktail, however, is to combine the worst of both systems. For the last 40 years, we’ve been doing this in the United States. We have capitalism on the way up. If you can create value in this country, you can be rewarded with spoils vastly beyond anything comparable in history. If you can’t create value — if you’re born into the wrong family or you catch a bad break — you’ll likely live on the edge and pay dearly for your mistakes. A Hunger Games economy.

If the first form of exploitation is the realest, then patriarchy has pride of place over capitalism, and class-first leftists should convert to gender-first leftism. Or, alternately, they should give up the idea that historical precedence translates into theoretical or empirical precedence when it comes to oppression.

Nor does class have a strong claim to be the original oppression. As Shulamith Firestone argues in The Dialectic of Sex, there’s a much better case to be made for gender as the first, material basis of discrimination and exploitation. Body mass dimorphism has always given men a (supposedly) objective (supposedly) material ground for violence against women.

Antisemitism, for example, long predates what we’d generally think of as capitalism. In Europe, Christian restrictions on proto-capitalist banking ended up pushing Jewish people into lending and business, which explains much of the economic component of modern antisemitism. In this case, you could argue that economic prejudices that originally came about as rationalizations for fundamentally religious crimes later took on a life of their own.

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Esther and I starting out as friends meant we opened up to each other slowly at first, got to know one another without the pressure of a romantic relationship and subsequently nurtured a deep bond over the course of three years. I wouldn’t change a thing, though I wish someone had encouraged me to be kinder to myself in my teens, not to feel pressure to define or explain myself in a hurry. Had I done that, I think I would have had room to grow and develop at my own pace. So if anyone reading this is struggling, just remember that matters of the heart are rarely preordained, nor something you can prepare for or predict; all you can do is trust your instincts, try not to overthink it, and take things at your own pace.

Coming out to my family for a second time reminded me of how problematic the whole exercise is. My family were supportive and loving as always but I couldn’t help feeling a little silly about the build-up and formality of coming out the first time around. Although many count their experience as an important milestone in establishing their identity, I saw for the first time how it serves to teach many gay, bi, pan and trans people that fancying someone outside of the ‘norm’ is something that needs to be spelled out, ‘othered’ and examined under a microscope, instead of celebrated for what it is: one human being wanting to find love with another. Gender doesn’t always have to be an integral part of that.

It does seem likely that economic motives created strong incentives for codifying and elaborating racial prejudice. But the case for economics preceding prejudice in all cases is dicey.

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For example, in a film about the mafia — I forget the movie’s name — a white man tells a Black man: “take your scraps with you” before the Black man leaves the room. I didn’t know it before I was told, but plantation owners frequently fed the people they enslaved the scraps of their food — the pieces that they didn’t want, and you wouldn’t have wanted either. In the film, the Black man showed resentment for being told to “take his scraps” — but I wouldn’t have known why, if she hadn’t told me.

Class-first leftism isn’t just a theory. It also makes a number of empirical claims. For example, class-first leftists argue that economic motives are behind virtually all oppression. The desire for wealth caused slavery, Burgis argues, and racial “prejudices that originally came about as rationalizations for fundamentally economic crimes like slavery and colonialism later took on a life of their own.”

My ex-girlfriend also educated me about racism in film. At the most unexpected times, she pressed pause on the movies we were watching and pointed out racism in movie scenes. Through these experiences, I learned that films often portray racism in ways that are invisible to white people.

The logical alternative to capitalism is socialism, and on its face, there is a lot to like. Socialism is rooted in altruism and humanism; it seeks to build up community rather than the atomized individual. These are noble goals. But the sacrifice in productivity is immense, especially with the compounding effects of time. Capitalism creates dramatically many more spoils, so any of those noble goals have more to work with.

I’d come out as gay at 18, just after leaving for university, and what followed was a string of boyfriends and flings and one memorable encounter at a bus stop, alas nothing substantial. Once Esther and I started dating, I began to appreciate that the walls that had separated us in the first place were flimsy. It took a while of self-reflection but I slowly began to understand that the decision I’d made to come out as gay at 18, rather than bi or pan, wasn’t written in stone after all. It was Esther who made me realise it had been the person that stirred my soul, not their gender.