*brief moment to take some calming breaths after reading yet another "TERFs are neither Radical nor Feminist" take, completely obviating the massive history of serious legitimate critiques of Radfem's shortcomings beyond trans issues*

PSA: Radical Feminism was a particular movement and a resulting span of ideologies. Anarchist and Marxist feminism are both radical and feminist but not "Radical Feminism", for instance.

The main goal of radical feminism was to women's liberation on the agenda in and of itself, in the context of a prevailing male dominated left willing to continually put feminism as a secondary concern to class or other struggles. It was super effective!

It also ended up with problematic outcomes as a result of that being the single common goal:
* Race politics and different needs and experiences of black and working class women were marginalised.
* "Cultural feminism" emerged from it - a sort of nationalism of womanhood.

The latter resulted in a massive internal fight over sexual morality and trans liberation which carries on to this day.

Defining the people who are the (frankly) wrong side of that battle as not feminist erases the history of feminists fucking up and also developing new ideas.

Similarly a bunch of the suffragettes became full on literal fascists during and after the first world war and it would be completely senseless to erase the history of how that came about (and leaves feminists in the present and future at risk of making the same mistakes again).

TLDR: feminists, like everyone else, have a history of inner conflict over ideology and we can learn a lot more from it than we do by cutting off pieces of feminist history and calling them unfeminist.

(more generally I feel like the history of this stuff repeating itself demonstrates the effect of culture war fighting ending up having negative impacts on learning and progression. The willingness to openly loot the corpse of radfem is why I love xenofem so much)