Re: Socialism and Women's Leadership (was China Drafts Law to Boost Unionsand End Labor Abuse)

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

> Hypothesis:
>
> Socialist regimes result from a revolutionary movement, and the
> leadership of such states consists (for the most part) in those who
> achieved leadership within the revolutionary movement at an early stage.
> The 'problem'* then is to be found in the conditions which generate the
> leadership of embryonic socialist movements. Hence the question "Why so
> few women in the leadership of socialist states" can be seen to be
> _identical_ with the question, "Why so few women on lbo, pen-l, and
> marxism list?
>
> Carrol

Frankly, I am surprised to see the question posed in this fashion at
all. Back in the 1970s, radical feminists were always taunted with
the examples of Indira Ghandi, Golda Meir et al. At one point I would
have been surprised to hear an echo of that from Yoshie, but after
hearing hear laud Ahmadinejad's call for Iranian women to breed solid
citizens for the Islamic Republic, nothing should surprise me.