From: brumback-AT-ncgate.newcollege.edu
Date: Sat, 28 Mar 1998 22:25:13 -0800
Subject: Re: M-TH: Women's liberation, male supremacy ,power and praxis


>  NANCY,
>
>             For your program and praxis (practical -critical activity)
proposals: How about in the temporary first phase of the revolution
dictatorship of the feminine gender within the temporary dictatorship of the
proletariat. Well not dictatorship. How about hegemony of the femine gender
within the hegemony of the proletariat for socialism ?
>
>                     Comradely,
>
>                           Charles
>
Good idea! I am definitely in favor of feminine rule of any kind!

Just kidding -- not really. Somewhere I wrote about a "Dictatorship of
Ideas," which would have been collectively defined by both men and women in
democratic discussion, such as what Leo wrote about in today's posts:

I also think -- this is an anti-essentialist position -- that the only
ultimate ground and foundation of morality and ethics is community discourse,
the democratic give and take of conversation amongst ourselves on how we
should act and treat each other. A given moral or ethical code is thus an
expression of some community consensus, regardless of the form in which it may
express itself (ie, religious, philosophical.)

This is good, I think, because men are not going to have anti-woman
positions just because they are men, and women are not going to have
pro-woman positions just because they are women. Like Paulo Freire said,
none of us can see "reality" by ourselves. We have to try to look at it
together and discuss what we see, because what one cannot see, another may
be able to.

Cheers!

Nancy



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