Sam Seder
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How The History Of Capitalism Shaped Our Concept Of Gender And Family
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December 12, 2017
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7:04Now PlayingIn this Majority Report clip, Tithi Bhattacharya on her new book, "Social Reproduction Theory: Remapping Class, Recentring Oppression."
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"ONE OF the most common charges against Marxism is that, as a theory, it is preoccupied with "class" at the expense of gender.
It is important to state at the outset that the history of organizations claiming to be "Marxist" has not always been glorious when it comes to categories of oppression such as gender and race. Everyone knows someone who has been told by a "Marxist" man that "minor" annoyances like sexism or racism will be sorted out "after the revolution," so in the meantime, we all need to buckle down and work on our class struggle. Incidents of sexual harassment by Marxist men are also unfortunately not uncommon in organizations of the left, both in the past and the present.
Short of actual harassment, women have recounted feeling dismissed, undermined and institutionally written off within organizations. Voices of women activists such as the Indian Communist women involved in the historic Telengana struggle of 1947, British Communists such as Doris Lessing, or Peggy Dennis, a leading member of the U.S. Communist Party, tell a dispiriting story of sexism and disappointment in organizations that such women had seen as their life's work and source of hope."*
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