[Marxism-Thaxis] M-TH: 1998 Assistants to your self-emancipation
M-TH: Assistants to your self-emancipation http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/marxism-thaxis/1998-March/007472.html Charles Brown charlesb at CNCL.ci.detroit.mi.us Fri Mar 20 09:26:14 MST 1998 * Previous message: M-TH: The 60s * Next message: M-TH: listen, vanguardists! * Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] Thanks for your thoughts Yoshie. Here's what pops into my mind. >>> Yoshie Furuhashi 03/19 5:38 PM >>> Hi Charles, << - An Equal Rights for Women Amendment to the Constitution, revive = that campaign, in the form of a Bill of Rights for Women, as well as a general statement that women shall have equal rights with men. The Bill of Rights would include freedom and liberation to pursue and material enabling to provide for self-happiness,, education and joy; pay equity or comparable worth pay; reproductive, sexual and caring labor power and freedom for women, including fulfillment of all material needs for reproductive and caring and schooling labor; protection and safety from bodily brutalization= and abuse for women and children>> I am afraid that legal struggles of this kind have probably exhausted = their usefulness. What if it was not a constitutional amendment campaign ? What would be = the form of the non-legal campaign ? How about a legal campaign and a = non-legal campaign ? A positive aspect of a constitutional amendment = campaign is that it would have to be among masses of people. It is not = establishing a law by going through the elite of lawyers and judges. = Constitutional amendment is still a republican form, but closer to direct = mass democracy end of the spectrem as bourgeois democratic forms go . Of course, I like Lenin enough that I'm not against the legal and = illegal party. Both are welcome at the Boston Tea Party of a new type, our = neo-Paris Commune. I would welcome a non-legal form of party of activity = and struggle. << - Improve mens' caring and nurturing labor skills, particularly child care skills. Programmatically and systematically men can learn more home economics and housework, how to feed, cloth, wash , etc. children. I know there are many men who are an exception to this generalization, who do a lot of housework, but in general it is an accurate generalization. This is especially important because women do so much wage earning too, doublework.= It is patently unfair and exploitative.>> <<- It does not follow that because women biologically get pregnant that they must do most of the childcare after birth., from infancy through schoolteaching.>> About the above two, I think that it is not simply the ideology of sexism that creates the unequal and gendered division of labor in social reproduction. Without equal participation and equal treatment in terms of wages and also special paid leaves for pregnancy + childbirth, women will keep earning lower wages, which will in turn perpetuate an economic 'rationale' for the aforesaid division of labor in care-giving. (And of course, the double burden in turn will reinforce women's marginality in = the labor market.) I think this is an issue that labor movements + marxists ought to foreground. I'm thinking whether or not what we are saying contradicts. I think I = agree with what you are saying. It is both the ideology of sexism (I = prefer "male supremacy") and the sociopoliticoeconomic fact of male = supremacy that creates the unequal and gendered division of labor in = social reproduction (and production). Does this understand your meaning ? = The two items you comment on are meant to specify both the ideology or = consciousness and the conduct (or being) which constitute a major part of = the domestic and reproductive male supremacy; and to suggest how they = should be changed (through practical-critical activity or praxis). <<- Total equality for women in political and leadership postitions, in government , religion, academe, business and all institutions of power.>> We had better begin with ourselves--within labor movements and marxist politics. Right now, government, academe, business, etc. are doing a much better job making use of women's labor and knowledge, including some women in leadership positions too. Agree. We need criticism/self-criticism. Well if we really measured it = business ain't doin' so good in this area. But geez, labor and marxists = should be doing much better than business. U.S's AFL-CIO nationally is getting better.=20 Marxists must organically relate women's liberation and workers' = liberation theory, and become known as women's liberationists the way they = have been known as workers' liberationists. The new "democratic centralism" in our party of a new type, must be = affirmative action with rational quotas (51%) for women in leadership. = "Democratic feminism" /and the new leninism.=20 <<-all-arouind anti-male chauvinism and anti-male supremacy , equality without identity. We want a unity and non-
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WE MUST TURN OUR OUTRAGE OVER KATRINA INTO A MOVEMENT On the 50th Anniversary of Dec. 1, 1955, the day in Montgomery Alabama that Rosa Parks sparked the modern Civil Rights Movement -- A Call for A NATIONWIDE STRIKE AGAINST POVERTY, RACISM & WAR THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1 NO SCHOOL - NO SHOPPING - NO WORK CONTINUED PROTEST AND TEACH-INS THROUGH DECEMBER 2 AND 3 M A S S M A R C H O N W A L L S T. NYC JUSTICE FOR THE PEOPLE OF NEW ORLEANS &THE GULF STATES A JOB AT A LIVING WAGE IS A HUMAN RIGHT BRING THE TROOPS HOME NOW HEALTHCARE, HOUSING AND EDUCATION NOT WAR AND OCCUPATION The Outrage in New Orleans is a clarion call to the antiwar movement and the grassroots: The time has arrived to take our struggle to a higher level. Let us work together and organize a nationwide strike against Poverty, Racism and War on Dec. 1, 2005, the 50th anniversary of the day that Rosa Parks helped launch the modern civil rights movement - no work, school, or shopping - continued protest through Dec.2 and 3 - A MASS MARCH ON WALL ST. NYC. It is time for the people to demonstrate that they can stop business as usual coast-to-coast when justice requires the people to do so. We owe it to the victims of Katrina, to poor and working people, to the world and to ourselves to find the way to help turn the outrage over Katrina into a mass grassroots movement for social justice, the likes of which this country has not seen for some time. Moreover, it is vitally necessary, and much more possible now, to forge real unity on a phenomenal scale between the movement against the war and the movements of African Americans, people of color, and poor and working people in a struggle for economic, social and political rights. The war and occupation of Iraq and the Katrina outrage have demonstrated to the world the urgent necessity for fundamental change and a movement that is big enough and determined enough to achieve the goal. Katrina has exposed the ugly truths about class and race, poverty, war and militarism. Our solidarity with demands of the survivors of Katrina must evolve from empathy, charity and symbolism to a mighty social force to be reckoned with. Key to this mighty potential will be the forging of a strong alliance with activists and leaders within the African American community in the Gulf States, taking direction from them regarding the kind of solidarity that they need and the demands they are making. Our demand to end the war in Iraq and to bring the troops home now must be backed up by the kind of mass tactics that signal that we mean business. Fifty years ago, Black people in Montgomery, Alabama were forced by law to sit in the back of public buses, and give their seats to any white person who demanded it. When Rosa Parks, a garment worker and civil rights activist, refused to give up her seat to a white man, she sparked the Montgomery bus boycott against segregation on public buses, one of the most successful and truly mass boycotts in history. The Montgomery bus boycott also introduced to the world a young reverend named Martin Luther King Jr., who became the boycott's principal public leader. A Dec. 1 Strike Working Committee was set up at a Sept. 10 Natl. Strategy Meeting of the Troops Out Now Coalition (TONC) attended by more than 100 activists. The working committee will develop outreach and building plans for the Dec. 1 strike. Dec. 1 Nationwide strike against poverty, racism and war -- INITIATING ORGANIZATIONS: Troops Out Now Coalition, Million Worker March Movement, Teamsters National Black Caucus, Michigan Emergency Committee Against War & Injustice. ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis
