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

[Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx>]

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>
> More
> fundamentally, being in and of the West doesn't seem to have promoted
> female political leadership of Western socialist formations

And where female leadership has appeared it has in several instances
aped the worst features of testerone-flooded male leadership. I am
thinking of two: Marlene Dixon in her communist organization and
Bernadine Dohrn in the Weatherman organization. And incidentally, Mark
Rudd (interview in the Spring 2006 Radical History Review) has given a
far more honest account of his Weatherman days than I have ever seen
from Dohrn. And also, LRS did have female leadership at national,
regional, and local levels -- which may partly explain why it was one of
the last of the "New Communist" organizations to collapse.

Carrol