What is your principled approach to the gender oppression question?
(I am based in the global south, in case this context matters down the line)
I am not new to Marxism-Leninism, but ever since I split from the mainstream Dengist line I've been more and more considering to reassess many of the established beliefs I have had since I got class and political consciousness. The issue is that I genuinely don't know if a particular principle is correct or needs reassessment, namely the gender question, specifically the right approach to combating the patriarchal tendencies in the system without delving into liberal identity politics.
The thing I really want to hear more about is your suggested approach to this issue.
I don't want to make false claims unintentionally, so I won't assume some of the things I've heard many radical feminists say online are the norm or not.
Gender oppression is real, and it's systemic, but does that mean gender takes an equal level of focus as class in our struggle?
If we take Lenin's and Mao's approaches then we could say gender (and other identities) is very important to struggle for, but not at the cost of working class solidarity. But a smaller resistant line says that Lenin and Mao spoke for their own contemporary social standards and norms and that it's justified to divide the working class into identity-based categories in order to ensure all other struggles aside from class are dealt with properly. Is this correct or not?
I have done research inside this subreddit to find if this was answered before, but I couldn't find an answer to my exact confusion (Perhaps I missed it so I apologize in that case). The most recurring past answers are very old (when this place was possibly more broad than it is today) and they fluctuate between pro-identity politics and full on what some people consider class reductionism. But since this place underwent a structural and principled change in recent years, I wanna hear a clearer opinion.