From: Michael Hoover <hoov-AT-freenet.tlh.fl.us> Subject: RE: M-I: Red Feminism Date: Sat, 21 Dec 96 8:20:28 EST > but I still don't get what Teresa is proposing > people (or just women) actually do. > will I sat in the audience at a panel on Red Feminism about a year ago and during the Q&A asked Teresa Ebert and her panel colleagues "what is to be done?"...having sat through an hour or more of comments about the need to reintroduce/reclaim/rediscover class analysis (which I absolutely agree with) that were filled with references to Lenin & Gramsci, I hadn't heard what the panelists propose folks do...I posed my question by noting that neither Lenin nor Gramsci ever abandoned the concept of a revolutionary party...Ebert and 1 other panelist responsed by suggesting that people form local teacher associations (this was a group of educators) and that they read a new magazine called Red Orange (published by Syracuse University graduate students that is laced with indecipherable jargon, in my not always humble opinion)...I don't think Ebert's ATC piece - which I generally agree with - excerpted to the list by Louis P adequately addresses the question either...she ends her article by suggesting that we need an "international collectivity committed to emancipating women and all oppressed people from need and the exploitation of their labor"...ok, but what is this "international collectivity?"...perhaps it is unfair - though I actually don't think it is - to ask this question of someone who is attempting to bring class analysis to the fore - an arduous task in the US and a daunting one among elements of the so-called left...but to avoid the question relegates "international collectivity" to the utopian...Michael --- from list marxism-international-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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