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 --- from list marxism-international-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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