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

[Doyle Saylor <doylesaylor@xxxxxxx>]

Greetings Economists;

On Oct 14, 2006, at 11:49 AM, Carrol Cox wrote:

> 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.

Doyle;
Yeah Marlene was a very mean person.  I served for a time with them
because I think it important that women and sexuality be central to
socialist organization.  Which gave me an up close education in
organizational problems which having women lead didn't over come.  The
party structure was overtly emotionally oppressive in which women just
as much did acts of oppression just as much a men can.

Marlene drank heavily, used intimidation to quell the chaos of people's
'dissent' but I suppose it much better to say that intimidation forces
people to retreat emotionally from interaction.  Therefore her error
was in understanding the cognition of interaction.  In other words she
intellectualized the process of socialist freeing of women in the
standard way of historical parties thereby reproducing the emotional
inertness of the common cadre.  Not quite inert was I said Yoda, but I
was twisted into levitating my ass out of there.
Doyle