Date: Wed, 25 Mar 98 12:12:43 EST From: boddhisatva <kbevans-AT-panix.com> Subject: Re: M-TH: Re: To Nancy on the Dictatorship of the Proletariat To whom..., I don't think that we can take for granted that women Marxists will necessarily do what is in the best interest of feminism simply because they are women. Women are even more subject to the psychological effects of living under the self-conflicted, self-deceiving patriarchy than men are. Men have the advantage of looking at the battle from outside, instead of a soldier's point of view. Besides, we *are* the patriarchy. We know how it works. This is not to say that women would not naturally be the core of feminist Marxism, and rightly so. What I mean is that a feminism that does not include men is incomplete and may not be intellectually circumspect. Of course men probably have a conditioned impulse to preserve patriarchal relations with women, no matter how enlightened they are. Fortunately, women are particularly sensitive to that kind of blinkered behavior. peace --- from list marxism-thaxis-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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