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How Kyriarchy Infects Good Movements

Cross posted at Dissenting Leftist

Many left libertarians, particularly of the feminist variety, use the term kyriarchy as an umbrella term denoting intersecting structures of domination and power. For instance, I spend a lot of my time critiquing the kyriarchy that results from an intersection of statism, militarism, nationalism, transphobia, ageism, ableism, homophobia, misogyny, puritanism, racism, corporatism, class divisions, and other such phenomena.

Well, lately I’ve been noticing that one of the main problems with kyriarchy is that specific liberation movements end up plagued with many structures of domination.