File spoon-archives/marxism-international.archive/marxism-international_1997/97-03-28.125, message 51


From: Zeynep Tufekcioglu <zeynept-AT-turk.net>
Subject: Re: M-I: Re: Harsh words
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 09:27:01 +0200


Dear Paul, allow me to correct a few misconceptions. Adolfo was not expelled
but suspended, and it was not because his words hurt my feelings, but
because they violated a basic principle I share with true revolutionaries
around the world. As for my gender playing a role, if it takes a woman to
remind some self-proclaimed revolutionaries that suggesting the life of a
political opponent, who is neither proven nor even seriously accused of
being an agent of the enemy, is worthless and should end by a icepick trap
since we don't want to waste a bullet, not that it would not honor us to do
so, well, I would truly feel sorry for menkind. That was the reason for
Adolfo's suspension, after which he went into a wild frenzy, senselessly
repeating he was suspended because I was a weak woman with a sensitive
tummy. Now, everyone else who tried to say something on my behalf or on
behalf of the decision also was "a bourgeois feminist standing up for
another woman", or "a weak man lending his trousers". Last, he also went
wild with claims that "the women want special treatment!, the women want
special treatment!" when there has been no suggestion, no mention, no
implication of such a request. Now, if this is not sexism, somebody should
tell me what is. 

>If Adolfo or Siddarth's words shock you with their sexism, I could point
>out some text on the Internet that might awake you from sheltered life
>(and dogmatic slumbers).

I might point to an easier source, look around you in real life and you will
see how much sexism hurts women and divides the working class in the
struggle for emancipation. Our shock is not because of our sheltered life,
but because we realise the importance of the issue, unlike those stuck and
buried in their sheltered life.

There are also fascists in the internet and many capitalist companies.
Should we be more accepting of fascists and capitalists just because they
exist in real life or the internet? Wasn't the idea to be revolutionary so
that we may change what we see?

>Zeynep T. complains about the mote in Adolfo's eye, when Adolfo
>is basically on the side of the broad masses of people, while remaining
>silent about the beam in her own eye, for example, the nest of would-be
>Hoover Institute hacks over which she broods.

What are you referring to?

>What else besides scabbing is scabbing?

Scabbing is one part of the working class acting contrary to the interests
of other parts and the whole working class. Dividing them. The way sexism
does. Right?

Zeynep



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