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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.



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