Lenin on 'freedom of love' as a bourgeois demand Letters from Lenin to Inessa Armand Written on 1915 where he describes 'freedom of love' as a bourgeois demand. Furthermore freedom of love is…
Falling star: Countering gender essentialism with sex essentialism Red and Black Leeds on the limitations of both gender essentialism and sex essentialism as a way to…
The logic of gender: on the separation of spheres and the process of abjection Marxist-feminists have employed a number of binary oppositions: productive/reproductive, paid/unpaid and public/private. We interrogate these categories and propose new ones. Starting from the specificities of the production and reproduction of labour-power, we define gender as the anchoring of individuals into two separate spheres of social reproduction. We trace the development of these spheres through the history…
Chris Knight’s theory of human origins: an abridged account Edmund Bradden provides an introduction to Chris Knight's theory of human origins. Reposted from the…
Communisation vs Spheres - Bernard Lyon 2011 text by Bernard Lyon, the second part of 'The Suspended Step of Communisation'.
Selected Writings - Clara Zetkin Essays and speeches from 1889-1933, long unavailable in the U.S., on women's equality, labor, peace, socialism.
Du féminisme illustré - éditions Blast & Meor This 2015 pamphlet, 'Feminism Illustrated', combines the translations of a 1974 article written for 'Le Fléau Social' ['The Social Plague'], and…
The arcane of reproduction - Leopoldina Fortunati Fortunati critiques the traditional Marxist category of “productive” labor and examines the effects on the capitalist “reproductive” roles of women’s labor and bodies, with illuminating consequences for the received understanding of society and the modern “nuclear” family.
Marx on gender and the family: a critical study - Heather A. Brown This, the first book-length study devoted exclusively to Marx’s perspectives on gender and the…
On the "woman question" - Gilles Dauvé "Too Marxist for a feminist? Too feminist for a Marxist? Or not enough…? Best see for yourself." Gilles Dauvé examines woman/sex/gender question,…
Gender Nihilism: An Anti-Manifesto - Alyson Escalante Alyson Escalante's critiques of the trans community's reliance on gender essentialism and a proposal…