“The Group-Made Man” [and Woman] In the late 19th century, when the ideology of “the self-made man” was sweeping the United States, propagated by the dime novels of Horatio Alger and the “rags-to-riches” biographies of the likes of Andrew Carnegie,…
Category: Capitalism
Why Are “Nanny Intellectuals” Prostitution’s Greatest Defenders?
by Carol Hanisch “There is something very odd about the prostitution debate,” declares Swedish journalist, writer, and activist Kajsa Ekis Ekman in a recent Feminist Current post. “While the absolute majority of sex buyers are male, an overwhelming majority of…
“Viagra for Women” Pill Fails to Perform
The “little pink pill”, sometimes referred to as the “Viagra for women”, is having a hard time performing up to its corporate claims. When the drug flibanserin (brand name: Addyi) was approved a year ago by the FDA – supposedly to help women’s…
Bernie Could Still Win the Presidency!
by Pete Healey, independent Leftist Bernie Sanders spent the last couple months of his primary campaign talking about having “a clear path to the nomination“, and fighting for it to the bitter end. But here’s the thing: when Jill Stein…
Identity Politics Gets Hoisted by Its Own Petard
Meghan Murphy has once again taken on liberal feminism and the identity issue in an excellent Feminist Current blog post: “#WeAreTheLeft: The day identity politics killed identity politics” Murphy critiques a long wordy Open Letter addressed to the Left and posted…
Backdraft from the U.S. Military Budget
By Carol Hanisch Absent from most of the debate in the presidential primaries is the discussion of the military budget and the wars that have secured profits for the rich while carrying out killing fields abroad and dying fields at…
Left Behind
by Carol Hanisch Over at Jacobin, Irish activist Bernadette Devlin, who brought the movement slogan, “Dare to Struggle—Dare to Win” to the U.S, is interviewed about what is known as “the peace process” in Ireland and its aftermath today. One…
It’s What You’re PAID, Not What You EARN!
by Carol Hanisch As long as jobs pay poverty wages, the people who work those jobs will be poor. As the argument grinds on about the minimum wage and • whether $12 is too much (as most Republicans and many…
“Oh, Hillary” Revisited
By Carol Hanisch Listening to Hillary Clinton attack Cuba for human rights violations in an attempt to redbait Bernie Sanders during the March 9 Democratic Party Presidential Primary debate in Miami took me back to her similar haranguing of China…
“A Special Place in Hell”: The Political Record of Hillary Clinton
by Carol Hanisch “There’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help each other!” – Madeline Albright, first female U.S. Secretary of State (1997-2001) appointed by President Bill Clinton, hectoring women to support Hillary Clinton for U.S.…