Major Debates in Marxist Feminism
STUDY BLOCKS: PHILOSOPHY, HISTORY, ORGANIZATIONAL THEORY
Image: Rebel Politik, Unity of the Oppressed Against Imperialism, India. Imperialism III Anti-Imperialist Poster Exhibition
STUDY MATERIALS
Marxist and Socialist Feminism, by Elisabeth Armstrong
DOWNLOAD PDFWomen of Africa and Asia. Report of the Commission of the Women’s International Democratic Federation (1948) Pages 1-40.
DOWNLOAD PDFCoronaShock and Patriarchy, by the Tricontinental Institute for Social Research.
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DISCUSSION PROMPT
In the preceding study sections, we have been putting different modes of analysis into practice and grappling with the many contradictions generated by global capitalism and imperialism for women and oppressed communities. In particular, in the class Political Economy of Patriarchy: Imperialism, we began to practice articulating working class, internationalist feminist demands that can mobilize and organize poor and working women across all lines of division in.
Today, considering the history of internationalist, anticapitalist, feminist organizing we will revisit our proposed demands.
*Reflect on the demands presented in the CoronaShock and Patriarchy study. Can you identify internationalism, anti-capitalism, and/or anti-imperialism embedded in these demands? Where and how?
*Do these demands speak to your communities and/or organizations? Why or why not?
*What methodology could have been used to create the demands listed in the Tricontinental study? What methodology was used to create the WIDF report?
*Revisit the demands you created in the preceding class. How would you change, update, or revise these demands? What processes would you propose to continue developing these demands?