Re: AUT: Patriarchy

[billbartlett@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Bill Bartlett)]

Luther Blissett wrote:

>emancipation of humanity. From this, the encadrement within bourgeois
>ideological constructs of equality make gender, like race a competing area
>of struggle for social reform with a notion of class stripped of all its
>revolutionary dynamic and reduced to a sociological category seeking a
>larger slice of the social dividend.
>
Love your turn of phrase Luther, but your phraseology creates difficulty in
comprehension. To be honest I have given up entirely with some other
writers here, but you seem to be saying something and I appreciate that you
take the trouble to illustrate your argument with historical insights.

In other words, love your stuff, but cut out the big words like
encadrement. Make it easier for us proles to follow your point. Now be
honest, a man of your talents should have no trouble finding less
convoluted way to state the above, a way which would make it possible to
understand the point without having to read it over several times.

In the final analysis I decided the point you make is actually irrelevant.
The fact that bourgoise social reform, in this case equality of women, is
fought out without addressing the fundamental class conflict within
capitalist society, does not really detract from the fact that bourgoise
society is a step up from feudal society. And not just for women.

And these social reforms are not entirely stripped of "revolutionary
dynamic", as you put it. In creating equality for women the capitalist
society is creating working class women and, in creating the working class,
capitalism fashions the instrument of its own destruction. Or so the story
goes.

Oh, and why is the "break up of class as a sociological category"  "to be
welcomed"?

Bill Bartlett
Bracknell Tas.




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