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

[Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx>]

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
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> So, women are allowed to become heads of bad capitalist states and
> parties but not of good socialist states and parties?

The passive voice here perhaps helps identify what we need to locate.
Who or what allows or doesn't allow? Corporations were forced by the
womens movement to place women in the leadership _pool_ (the lower ranks
of management and professional positions) and then the operations of
capitalist individualism ("merit" procedures) guaranteed that a certain
number of them would filter to the top.)

But I want to focus just on the "parties," not states, for state
leadership is a question of the future. And actually, on mostly on local
left organizations, for I can't take very seriously any of the
organizations presently pretending to be "national" or even regional in
scope. Are there organizational or theoretical moves we can make that
will create a leadership pool sufficiently 'loaded' with women to
significantly shape any future national movement? (This is a maillist,
so we are willy-nilly confined to theory in abstraction from any shared
practice.)

Carrol