Date: Wed, 25 Mar 1998 20:25:22 +0000 From: Mark Jones <Jones_M-AT-netcomuk.co.uk> Subject: Re: M-TH: Re: To Nancy on the Dictatorship of the Proletariat This is stuff to cherish for ever in double-locked archive files, Boddy. boddhisatva wrote: > 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 --- --- from list marxism-thaxis-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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