Re: Cuban Women: Randall's Reassessment

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>Women's emancipation, in the end, has to be self-emancipation of
>women.  The word "rehabilitation" already negates *self*-emancipation
>& suggests top-down & technocratic direction.  Men can not emancipate
>women, not even under socialism, just as middle-class feminist
>reformers can not emancipate working-class women under capitalism.
>*Women* under socialism have to take *leadership* in their own
>emancipation.
>
>Yoshie

All this is well and good. The Cuban government can be criticised on all
sorts of grounds. What I hope we will put behind us is any kind of notion
of socialist brothels run by Marxist versions of Tracy Quan in places like
the Philippines or the Congo.

Louis Proyect
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