From: Gary Dale <Gary.Dale-AT-ee.ed.ac.uk> Date: Mon, 16 Mar 1998 16:22:38 GMT Subject: Re: M-TH: Re: listen, vanguardists! Doug wrote: "For example, if the male dinosaurs didn't tell women (and men interested in gender issues) that their concerns were secondary, bourgeois even, then there probably would not be so many anti-marxist feminists in the world. Ditto those orthodox Marxists who told homosexuals that their desires are symptoms of bourgeois decadence." Cripes. What happened to concepts of specifity and universality (c.f. 'difference'). I don't see the explosion of identity politics - the 'who you are', not 'what you can be' - as any vibrant vitality. More its a dead-end borne of low-expectations. Celebrating 'cultural difference' is a small step from a policed apartheid - and if you doubt that is the reality, take a look at developments in Northern Ireland. If the championing of universality brings out feminists as anti-marxists, at least it could serve as a clarifying role. Gary D. --- from list marxism-thaxis-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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