File spoon-archives/marxism2.archive/marxism2_1996/96-04-30.191, message 83


Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 16:38:56 -0400 (EDT)
From: Justin Schwartz <jschwart-AT-freenet.columbus.oh.us>
Subject: Re: Women's oppression



Adama rgues as follows: most feminists aren't socialists, and the
socialist feminists today area  minority in the feminist movement. So we
should say that socialism is opposed to feminism. Of course the parallel
argument he would not accept goes like this: in the 1930s, most Marxists
were Stalinists, and revolutionary socialists who believed in democracy
were ina  minority of the Marxist movement. So democratic revolutionary
socialism was opposed to Marxism. Adam would say: the Stalinists weren't
real Marxists. By analogy he ought to say taht the bourgeois liberal
femists aren't real feminists. I go the other way. The Stalinists were
Marxists with bad ideas. The liberal feminists are feminists with limited
ones. 

--Justin




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