File spoon-archives/marxism-thaxis.archive/marxism-thaxis_1998/marxism-thaxis.9803, message 751


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




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