Date: Mon, 7 Nov 1994 18:48:59 -0800 (PST) From: Ann Ferguson <aferguso-AT-benfranklin.hnet.uci.edu> Subject: Re: Marxist Feminism 11/7/94 Im another person interested in Marxist and socialist feminism. Does anyone else who has read Maria Mies' "Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale" agree with me that her theory that capitalism is parasitic on a patriarchal appropriation of women's unreciprocated labor think that she might have been influenced by Rosa Luxemburg's "Accumulation of Capital"? Luxemburg didnt agree with the labor theory of value either, and saw imperialism as necessary to capital accumulation, that is, capitalism had to keep dealing with the problem of falling profits by appropriating resources from noncapitalist economies. Has anyone read Raya Dunyaskaeva's critique of Luxemburg on this and what do you think of it? Also Im fascinated by Mies claim that the housewification of women in industrial capitalism parallels the appropriation of peasant women (and mens) precapitalist labor in the Third World. What do people think about this? As to Justin Schwartz's critique of Albert and Hahnel on council socialism, I am not convinced that the time spent planning or the privacy issue are as problematic as he thinks. After all, I spend lots and lots of time going thru my yearly expenditures now in order to get out of paying income tax, putting them all into categories, adding them up, etc. Id be a lot happier to do that if the reason was not to try to cheat the govt out of money that goes disproportionately to the military, harms the environment and is spent in paternalistic and ineffectual social service spending but to adjudicate exchanges of work and goods with other "free, associated producers"!! The Radical Philosophers Conference in Des Moines last weekend was wonderful. There will be the 2nd National Conference two years from now at Purdue University in Indiana. Look for it and you will not be disappointed. Write Richard Schmitt for more info on RPA, the RPA Newsletter (which reviews radical and feminist and antiracist philosophy books etc). You can reach him at: rschmitt-AT-vax.clarku.edu Best, Ann Ferguson Philosophy UC/Irvine aferguso-AT-uci.edu (As of Dec. 9 I will be back at UMass/Amherst with a new email address: ferguson-AT-philos.umass.edu) ------------------
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