![]() Rather than quote these women in their very strong criticisms of various strains of feminism, the Struggle Sessions EB contents themselves with quoting Engels, Lenin, and José Carlos Mariátegui in an attempt to prove that feminism is bourgeois. For the sake of my more patient sisters however, I will do my best to respond to and dismantle these criticisms brick by brick.įor an article that is supposedly about women’s emancipation, the article only names two, Clara Zetkin and Anuradha Ghandy. Perhaps I am uniquely fed up with men on the left, but I would lose little sleep disregarding such a condescending argument entirely. Their recent article, Proletarian Feminism or the Marxist Theory of the Emancipation of Women, amounts to little more than a handful of male chauvinists explaining that the innumerable women who have attempted to theorize and reach liberation while calling themselves feminists of some kind are wrong because these specific six men (Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Chairman Gonzalo, oh my!) did it better, and they didn’t use that word. “Learn from the valiant standard-bearer of the Great Cultural Revolution, comrade Jiang Qing, and pay her respect!”Ī communist I respect once said that “the left puts the petty in petty bourgeoisie.” If we’re being honest, what communist hasn’t at some point made an incredibly petty argument that amounts to little else but splitting hairs for the sake of striking an intimidating pose? Far from being rightfully stamped out, the editorial board of Struggle Sessions just shot the petty leftist trend full of adrenaline.
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