Re: Socialism and Women's Leadership and black women

[Yoshie Furuhashi <critical.montages@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 10/14/06, Waistline2@xxxxxxx <Waistline2@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Then of course a huge section of women were ousted from production in
> America after the Second Imperial World War, and the Women's
> movement would
> only later pick up more steam on the basic of the struggle of the African
> American people for fair play, justice and taking a noose from around a
> brother's neck. Sorry . . . women were lynched and murdered also including
> bombing little girls.

Just when women, Blacks, and others won civil rights did jobs most
worth winning begin to disappear from the USA!

> I was a member of the Communist Labor Party during the "New Communist
> Movement" period and we never had a women as General Secretary.
> Nelson Peery
> was continuously voted General Secretary always with
> overwhelming consigns,
> votes and support by everyone.
>
> Still there was no women General Secretary, although there were always a
> majority women in every leadership body throughout the organization. An
> absolute and resounding majority women. In Detroit and Michigan in
> particular women and black women at that dominated absolutely every
> organizational body . . . period.
>
> Women seems to strive different from men are not as combative
> and eager to
> prove something to the world. I cannot quite put my finger exactly on it,
> but I am told women have a different feel and sense of collectivity.

Women very rarely strive to acquire what's called charisma, because
women aren't socialized to do so, and both men and women rarely look
for charisma in women but they often do in men, again because of
socialization.

> One
> thing is fairly obvious to men today: It is no longer possible in our
> society to lead a mass of people with men in control of leadership. Here is
> an important difference between the women's movement expressing dynamics
> changes in the role of women in modern production in America, versus the
> women as state leader in less individual developed societies.
>
> In America we go nowhere and the advance of the revolutionary movement is
> impossible within women occupying the leadership of everything: from the
> local block club to every power center in state and government and all
> political parties. This is not the case with say China or India, although
> these societies are advancing to that point.

I agree with you on the distinction you are making here: at certain
stages of economic development male leaders of great ability,
charisma, political vision, etc. acting sometimes as "enlightened
despots" make a lot of difference for women.  But beyond those stages
the same approach doesn't work.

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Yoshie
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