[PEN-L:8789] Re: Woman as the Other of Philosophy (was (Fwd) Review of *Hegel and

["Michael Hoover" <hoov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Woman as an embodiment of passivity
> Yoshie

Marx apparently told his daughters Jenny and Laura the following (among
other things) during a game of *Questions*:

favorite virtue in a man: strength
favorite virtue in a woman: weakness
favorite hero: Spartacus
favorite heroine: Gretchen (fictional character in Goethe's _Faust_)

while KM may have been goofing on his daughters, he was a Victorian
guy, thus, he tended to view such things as 'race' and family as
natural categories (although, in his case, historically contextualized).
...Marx writes of the benefits of European colonialism *and* denounces
its violence...he critiques the peasantry *and* prefigures dependency
theory...

re. women...Michelle Barret asserts that Marx:
'cannot be "let off the hook" by saying that gender inequality had
yet to be discovered at the time he lived and wrote... To exonerate
Marx by an appeal to a supposedly "pre-feminist" culture is both to
underestimate the currency of feminist ideas in the nineteenth
century and to underestimate the usual level of perception of Marx.'
("Marxism-feminism and the Work of Karl Marx," in B. Mathews (ed.),
_Marx: A Hundred Years On_, 1983, pp. 199-200)...   Michael Hoover