08/03/2021
We raise the issue: where and by whom was the Marxist position on the oppression and emancipation of women originally formulated as “proletarian feminism”? This term is not found in the works of Marx, Lenin, Mao, or the Communist Party of Peru. Whose contribution is it then? Where does the specific articulation of “proletarian feminism” come from? And where is the argument that this is the most appropriate summary of Marxism’s position on the women’s question? These questions must be answered, with historical materialism regarding both Marxism and feminism, before anyone should accept the new terminology. It is critical when implementing new terms to be able to situate them within the revolutionary struggles that produce them, and to understand the core theory expressing these as such.
Struggle Sessions Editorial Board This topic is of specific importance to revolutionaries in the US; our position is formulated on the basis of two-line struggles between the left and right in the …
