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Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto
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A manifesto for mass movements�
The Good:
--The priority here is listing out the overarching views/goals in an accessible and engaging manner�
--Highlights:
1) Capitalism’s profit motivepromotes necessitates systemic free-riding on “externalities� (external to market pricing) and of course chief propagandist Milton Friedman redirects this at the “state� with “there is no such thing as a free lunch� (how convenient). We see this in capitalism's failure with the existential environmental crisis. Another key resource is free labour, esp. social reproduction (housework/care-work, to reproduce the wage labourers), thus disproportionately exploiting women.
2) Given the latest trends in capitalism dismantling the welfare state, social production is also a key site for social struggle. “Class struggle� and the “sٰ� need to be expanded beyond wage labour’s demands in wages/hours. Ex. International Women’s Strike.
3) Thus, capitalist feminism (ex. Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg's Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead) is out. While this may be obvious for activists, keep in mind that a manifesto is also our outreach to the general public (something niche, ivory-tower creative writing like Xenofeminism: A Politics for Alienation completely neglects). This leaves a vacuum which liberal feminism tries to fill, ex. We Should All Be Feminists...
The Missing:
--The way to get around the requirement for manifestos to be concise is to have a nice “References� or “Further Readings� section at the end; did you find this in your copy?
…This seems invaluable in bridging outreach with deeper investigations:
1) Political economy/history of capitalism (i.e. free-riding/commodification/dispossession/endless growth/crises/abstraction)?
-intro: Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: or, How Capitalism Works—and How It Fails
-Feminist economics 101: The Invisible Heart: Economics and Family Values
-structural alternatives: Another Now: Dispatches from an Alternative Present
-intro to global conditions: The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions
-Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism
-deep dive: Capital and Imperialism: Theory, History, and the Present
-Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation
2) Global South?
-The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World
-Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale: Women in the International Division of Labour
-Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World
3) Environment?
-Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
-Facing the Anthropocene: Fossil Capitalism and the Crisis of the Earth System
-A People’s Green New Deal
-The Red Deal: Indigenous Action to Save Our Earth
-Ecofeminism
4) Organizing?
-Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell); My Decade Fighting for the Labor Movement
-A People's History of the United States
The Good:
--The priority here is listing out the overarching views/goals in an accessible and engaging manner�
--Highlights:
1) Capitalism’s profit motive
2) Given the latest trends in capitalism dismantling the welfare state, social production is also a key site for social struggle. “Class struggle� and the “sٰ� need to be expanded beyond wage labour’s demands in wages/hours. Ex. International Women’s Strike.
3) Thus, capitalist feminism (ex. Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg's Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead) is out. While this may be obvious for activists, keep in mind that a manifesto is also our outreach to the general public (something niche, ivory-tower creative writing like Xenofeminism: A Politics for Alienation completely neglects). This leaves a vacuum which liberal feminism tries to fill, ex. We Should All Be Feminists...
The Missing:
--The way to get around the requirement for manifestos to be concise is to have a nice “References� or “Further Readings� section at the end; did you find this in your copy?
…This seems invaluable in bridging outreach with deeper investigations:
1) Political economy/history of capitalism (i.e. free-riding/commodification/dispossession/endless growth/crises/abstraction)?
-intro: Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: or, How Capitalism Works—and How It Fails
-Feminist economics 101: The Invisible Heart: Economics and Family Values
-structural alternatives: Another Now: Dispatches from an Alternative Present
-intro to global conditions: The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions
-Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism
-deep dive: Capital and Imperialism: Theory, History, and the Present
-Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation
2) Global South?
-The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World
-Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale: Women in the International Division of Labour
-Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World
3) Environment?
-Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
-Facing the Anthropocene: Fossil Capitalism and the Crisis of the Earth System
-A People’s Green New Deal
-The Red Deal: Indigenous Action to Save Our Earth
-Ecofeminism
4) Organizing?
-Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell); My Decade Fighting for the Labor Movement
-A People's History of the United States
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Quotes Kevin Liked
“These two voices represent opposing paths for the feminist movement. On the one hand, Sandberg and her ilk see feminism as a handmaiden of capitalism. They want a world where the task of managing exploitation in the workplace and oppression in the social whole is shared equally by ruling-class men and women. This is a remarkable vision of equal opportunity domination: one that asks ordinary people, in the name of feminism, to be grateful that it is a woman, not a man, who busts their union, orders a drone to kill their parent, or locks their child in a cage at the border. In sharp contrast to Sandberg’s liberal feminism, the organizers of the huelga feminista insist on ending capitalism: the system that generates the boss, produces national borders, and manufactures the drones that guard them.”
― Feminism for the 99�%
― Feminism for the 99�%
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