Re: feminism

[Doyle Saylor <doylesaylor@xxxxxxx>]

Greetings Economists,
On Oct 14, 2006, at 11:30 AM, Jim Devine wrote:

> what is feminism? I had lunch with one of my female colleagues
> yesterday. Interestingly, she used the word "feminism" in a negative
> way in the same conversation as she expressed a lot of "feminist"
> attitudes.

Doyle;
Feminism, or other sorts of social rights appear in Capitalist states
as an expression of inequality built into the state that is outside the
overt operating wage structure in many ways.  One can catch anti-female
activity on the job, make a fight of it, but the fight is really
broader to the foundations of society.  So that in advanced Capitalist
states where wages and economism can't make headway to appeal to people
on a broad basis for social change these forms of 'interactional'
social relationships can appear outside the economic arguments for
social change.  To motivate people to want to do some inchoate
something.

The capitalist system will say for example produce a set of goods in
which social values are sort of apparent, like TV commercials, everyone
all together, but the 'together' is empty of meaning about actual
social relations.  The great together structure is not functional.
Producing the emotional attachments falls into the lingering emotion
shaping processes of consciousness production like the church,
traditional family, schools and other places where emotional attachment
is mainly face to face building processes no matter how unsatisfactory.

Feminism is about knowledge production of one arena of human knowledge
production in which social inequality is not defined by wage, by
territoriality, by supplanting by machines etc.

Feminism fundamentally requires that a Marxist theory of knowledge
production address the inequality women face in a male dominated
society of social attachment work processes.
thanks,
Doyle Saylor