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    It is not the case that Middle and upper class women will inevitably betray working class women in cross-class alliances

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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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    • 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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