From: owner-marxism-feminism-AT-jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU
Subject: Re: M-FEM: What kind of list would you like this to be?
Date: Sat, 5 Jul 1997 22:36:46 -0500 (CDT)


To all concerned,

    Could we all just back up a little bit? The postings in this
exchange do (in part in despite of themselves) raise issues that
are of immense importance to the socialist future, and it would
be well if we could extricate the issues from the personalities
that became involved.es that

    The workers' movement over the last two hundred years *does*,
on the whole, have a terrible record in regards to both gender and
(esp. in the U.S.) race. As an empirical fact, then, there isently
a necessity for some sort of independent organization for women
and African Americans. It is not a matter of whether whites/males
are or are not trustworthy or whether women/blacks could/should
"trust" men, but the historical *fact* that without some inde-
pendence they *cannot*.

    That does not mean that this list should be for women only;
I think that would a loss for everyone. I think it means that
we have to explore our way carefully. We have already lost too
many subscribers who would/could have been valuable members.

Carrol