Date: Sun, 4 Jan 1998 13:41:22 -0500 From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood-AT-panix.com> Subject: Re: M-I: reply to Yoshie re. Social movments Chris Warren wrote: >And don't let any comic book marxist tell you this is circular. > > >People who say "Marxism does not pay sufficient attention to gender, >culture, etc.?" usually have no idea what Marxism says on gender and >culture - but like the sound of their own voices. They then >end up asking "well what does Marx say". > >My point is they should have done this work first. Look, you smug patronizing little fuckhead, I've read lots and lots of Marx, much of it many times. There is not a hell of a lot there about gender. That doesn't make Marx bad or wrong. Some subsequent Marxists have written about gender, but it was never, at least until recently, a central theoretical or political concern in the tradition. Many Marxists - including Chris Warren, except when claiming that Marxism has always been concerned with The Woman Question - have denounced feminism as a "bourgeois" movement. Kollontai was banished to Oslo in 1922 after being denounced by Lenin. Warren's hysterical reaction in fact proves the point I was making - that gender is a sore spot for classical Marxists. I'm waiting for Warren to say a word or two about Marxism's recruitment problem. Or is it all a matter of a few secret agents who ruined everything? Doug --- from list marxism-international-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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