Read on Twitter
Colonialism is traumatic. Capitalism is traumatic. Trauma is not a singular event or series of them, it is an ongoing and complex process constantly shaped by our environment and relationships. Since human complexity, these have been controlled by the privatization of the MoP.
Social life is an interwoven web of all of the conflicting forces of interaction. Society dictates, based on arbitrary shifting classifications, that certain individuals must act and perform according to some norms; others according to others. If they don't, they are punished.
Kyriarchy is a term for the social institutions that uphold material oppression. Patriarchy insists those AMAB socialize with designated masculinities, performing violence, dominance, competition, individuality, rationality, etc. White men are rewarded for this;Black men punished
AFAB ppl must conform to social associations of femininity: peacefulness, cooperation, submission, emotionality, etc. White women are stereotyped as such, Black women are not and thus are also punished. Why include race? White supremacy/colonization, of course.
European colonization no doubt has an even stronger influence over social relations than patriarchy, though the patriarchy is older. The contradiction between the colonizer and the colonized is primary in class struggle, though this makes patriarchy no less important.
Black & Indigenous ppl never benefitted from settlement of Turtle Island. Colonized are required by Amerikkkan law and society to be submissive, speaking or acting against oppression is met with violence from the state. Yt national violence is encouraged. Look up whitecapping.
Even today, the Doctrine of Discovery, a legal proclamation allowing Christian nations to settle non-Christian lands, has gone unchallenged by settler legal systems (wonder why). RBG used this in 2005 to punish indigenous ppl from acting out. She, though a woman, is white first.
We can go on about the many intersecting systems of oppression, including cisheteronormativity, with attempts to quell it through false concessions of gay marriage (as if marriage isn't a tool of patriarchal oppression), commodification, pride parades, etc. But we won't.
Just know that all of these stem from class relations. Note, this is not reductionism, it is dialectical materialism. Any communist who discards trans, feminist, racial, etc. struggle as a distraction of "idpol" is a right opportunist using class struggle for personal gain.
Attempts to explain and dismantle these metaphysical structures of oppression to improve the material conditions of the masses is met with violence from the state and more propaganda attempting to justify their metaphysical necessity. This is violence too, cultural violence.
When we speak of trauma in the sense many (but not all) modern professionals do, as they are guided by the DSM-5, we are actively doing ourselves a disservice. Social life does not exist as individual beings. This is a limited explanation, one side of trauma which is multifaceted
Trauma is a biological response to capitalism, which is the culmination of the productive forces of class struggle which comprises human history. Trauma cannot be treated as an individual chemical problem. It can only be treated through social and economic change. Real change.
Real change doesn't mean welfare or social democracy. It means socialism. Real change to trauma is not what doctors of Western medicine suggest--medication/CBT--it is complete overhaul of social and economic relations.
This is just a bandaid over a bullet wound. Capitalism is the vicious cycle of violence that shot you. "Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer we use to crush the enemy" - Mao Zedong. Once we crush them, we destroy the hammer and end the classist cycle of violence forever.
