Repression against feminists for speaking out on behalf of women as an oppressed sex class has been increasing at an alarming rate. An extensive compilation of victims in various countries and situations is available here. Ann Menasche, a feminist lawyer in California who was…
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Supporting Porn Is Sexist, not Socialist!
by Carol Hanisch The Women’s Liberation Movement has a long history of having to criticize the Left for the hypocrisy of its sexism. Jacobin Magazine, which describes itself as “a leading voice of the American left, offering socialist perspectives on…
A “Poverty Draft” for Women Only?
New York Legalizes Commercial Surrogacy by Kathy Scarbrough and Carol Hanisch As Kathy Sloan predicted in an article we published in 2017, NY State just joined most other states in the U.S. by passing provisions enabling the well-off to use…
Women’s Unpaid Labor in Political Economy* Revisited
by Carol Hanisch and Kathy Scarbrough *Generally, Marxist Political Economy comprises an integrative analysis of the economy, society and politics. These three fields are not considered as isolated but as interdependent structures that evolved historically. The analysis of class struggle,…
Feminist Consciousness: Race and Class
By Amanda Martins, from Brazil Among the most controversial topics in feminism are the race and class questions, which have motivated many women to develop new theories that encompass multiple realities taking into account region, race, economy and sexuality. Meanwhile…
The Left Colludes with Capitalism on “Gender Identity”
As feminists who have been critical of the concept of “gender identity” for many years, we have been exasperated and concerned that groups and individuals on the Left, who claim to be materialists, have embraced this ideology with little or…
A Call for Women to Pledge to Strike
Below is a news release from National Women’s Liberation calling for a women’s strike against “all work, both paid and unpaid,” during the presidential inauguration weekend in January. They are setting a target of 20,000 strike pledges before making the…
Some Random Labor Day Missives
“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,…
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…
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…