File spoon-archives/marxism-thaxis.archive/marxism-thaxis_1998/marxism-thaxis.9803, message 765


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
>
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