feminism
Feminism is the theoretical commitment to the liberation of women from sexism, and for equality of the sexes.
Moral Disorder - Gilles Dauvé
English translation of the preface to the Swedish edition of For A World Without Moral Order.
So far, this text and a couple of others on similar issues1
- 1. “For a World without Moral Order” was first published in French in La Banquise #1, 1983, and then in English (translated by M. William) for the American magazine Anarchy, Fall 1993, and again in pamphlet form in Britain in 1998 (translated by Michael Katims).
Bolten, Virginia 1870-1960? aka “La Luisa Michel Rosarino” (The Louise Michel of Rosario)
A short biography of Virginia Bolten, fearless fighter for anarchism and women's liberation
Virginia Bolten was the daughter of a German street vendor. She was born in Uruguay, either in San Luis, according to some, or in San Juan, according to the researcher Placido Grela. Rosario was known as the “Barcelona of Argentina” at this point in time because of its concentration of industries, the radical ferment there and the political influence it had over the rest of the country.
Reproduction; social and sexual
This blog is partially the product of ongoing discussions within the Solidarity Federation over the relationship of 'Anarchy, Sex and Freedom,' but also the reliance among the wider left on dated theories from the 1960s whenever the question of sexuality is raised. The following is a speculative attempt to fill in some of the gaps.
The Stonewall/Bindel affair, and the politics of transsexuality
What would a revolutionary gender politics be? I don't have a clear answer, but certainly the area is one where there aren't many clear arguments of much use. The recent debacle involving Stonewall and Julie Bindel does allow us though to think about where to start.
Julie Bindel’s nomination for the Journalist of the Year prize (which she didn’t win) at the Stonewall awards this month ignited a storm of controversy, with many within the broad 'LGBTQ community’ outraged at the organisation’s recognition of a commentator with a long record of writing which they see as ridden with ‘transphobia’.
Sex, Work, and Gilles Dauvé
Though I can’t help feeling somewhat decadent in writing a blog post about a theoretical article written a quarter of a century ago at a time when severe economic crisis is presenting the opportunity to drive home the anti-capitalist perspective as never before, I find myself with free time in which to write some thoughts on a re-reading of Gilles Dauvé’s [url=http://www.libcom.org/library/fo
For A World Without Moral Order - Gilles Dauvé
The present article is an introduction to a critique of social mores, a contribution to the necessary task of revolutionary anthropology.
The communist movement possesses a dimension both of class and of humanity. Although the central role of the proletarian worker is at the foundation of that movement, and although that movement works toward human community, it is neither a form of workerism nor of humanism.
Women fighters in the days of the great October Revolution - Alexandra Kollontai
In this article, written in 1927 (well after the Bolshevik consolidation of power), Alexandra Kollontai describes the leading role in which women played in Russian Revolution of 1917. Though heavily Bolshevik in focus, it describes well the activity of working class women in the revolution.
The women who took part in the Great October Revolution – who were they? Isolated individuals? No, there were hosts of them; tens, hundreds of thousands of nameless heroines who, marching side by side with the workers and peasants behind the Red Flag and the slogan of the Soviets, passed over the ruins of tsarist theocracy into a new future...
International Women's Day - Alexandra Kollontai
First published in 1920, this essay traces the history of international women's day and its importance to working class struggle with particular focus on the 1917 Russian Revolution.
A militant celebration
Women's Day or Working Women's Day is a day of international solidarity, and a day for reviewing the strength and organization of proletarian women.
On the History of the Movement of Women Workers in Russia - Alexandra Kollontai
Written in 1919, Alexandra Kollontai's essay looks at the role of working class women in the history of Russian radicalism with particular focus on the 1905 revolution.
What year could be said to mark the beginning of the working women's movement in Russia?
I don't want to change my lifestyle - I want to change my life
It seems clear to me that the women's movement in Boston hasn't really been doing much this year as compared to last year. I think that the reason behind this is that people have tried very hard not to think about what they were doing, and have therefore become encased in dogma. I also feel that people have settled for reforming their lives instead of changing them.
