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    Middle and upper class women will inevitably betray worki... — Carmelics
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    Middle and upper class women will inevitably betray working class women in cross-class alliances

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    • 1.Middle and upper class women's economic privileges give them interests that diverge from working class women's interests
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    • 2.Any cross-class alliance that is not explicitly anti-capitalist will fail to resolve this divergence of interests
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    • 1.Shared gender oppression creates genuine common interests that can motivate sustained cross-class solidarity, as documented in suffrage and labor movements.
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    • 2.The historical record shows middle-class women like Florence Kelley materially advancing working-class women's conditions through sustained coalition work.
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    • 3.Structural betrayal requires that defection be the dominant strategy, but iterated cooperation under shared vulnerability can stabilize cross-class alliances.
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    • 1.The claim commits the genetic fallacy by inferring that class position inevitably determines political behavior, ignoring the role of ideological formation and consciousness.
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    • 2.Iris Marion Young's social group ontology holds that shared positional identity produces variable, not fixed, political orientations across individuals within a class.
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    On the other side of the debate, Brenner (2000) argues that women are not uniformly exploited by men across economic class lines: indeed, for working class women their unpaid work as housewives serves the working class as a whole, because the whole class benefits when its daily and future reproduction needs are met by women’s nurturing and childcare work. They argue further that middle and upper class women’s economic privileges will inevitably lead them to betray working class women in any cros
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