Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1996 10:45:48 -0600 (MDT)
Subject: Re: Class and individuals


On Wed, 17 Apr 1996, Adam Rose wrote:

> I think not. I think working class men have an interest in fighting
> women's oppression, and that the way to get rid of women's oppression
> is to use the methods of class struggle. Concretely, this means working
> class women should not attempt to unite with middle and ruling class
> women, because it weakens the fight against womens oppression. Instead,
> they should see working class men as their ( potential ) allies.

That might require certain socialist groups to have more than a passing,
arrogant attitude to the women's struggle, and make them take socialist
feminism seriously: i.e. admitting that women's liberation is not the same
struggle as anti-capitalist struggles and, precisely because most working
class men are bigger sexist assholes than most middle and ruling class
women, class unity can only be achieved while and after women have the
right and power to their own autonomous organizations: i.e. socialist
feminism and not watered down and patronizing "women's liberation" in a
man's organization.

> Adam Rose
> SWP
> Manchester
> UK
>
Ryan Daum




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