“This absolutization of identity, this quick abrogation of universality, strikes me as politically very dangerous. For a start: if in the constitution of your identity, I have no rights of cognition, participation, criticism, then on what basis may you ask…
Principles of Struggle
The Missing Word
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By Bruce Hartford As a writer by trade, I love the English language. I love its richness, its breadth, its depth. Yet it’s missing a word. We know and hold an important concept for which English provides no word that…
Taking Action, Women's Liberation / Feminism
How Ladies Against Women Flummoxed Phyllis Schlafly
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By Barbara Winslow EDITORS NOTE If not planned well, guerilla theater–frequently an accompaniment to protests or sometimes the protest itself–can fall flat, can confuses more than enlighten, and can insult the very people it’s trying to reach. At its…
Capitalism
Hating the Rich
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By Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz EDITOR’S NOTE: The following appeared on Counterpunch and MRzine sites in March 2007. We think it’s worth repeating given the further consolidation of power by the rich in the past seven years. “The rich are not…
Seeing Red / Carol Hanisch
“Inclusive Capitalism”? What an Oxymoron!!!
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By Carol Hanisch The superrich are getting nervous that the great slurp up from the pockets of low and middle income working people into their own dangerously bulging ones is causing “unrest” around the world. Modern versions of Karl Marx’s…
Women's Liberation / Feminism
Feminism Almost Always Needs a Modifier
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By Linda Burnham Introductory remarks by Kathy Scarbrough A really terrific critique of Lean In, the bestseller by Facebook COO Sheryl Sandburg (see below), has been written by Linda Burnham, who was active in the Third World Women’s Alliance in…