Claudia Jones--"Complete emancipation of women is possible only under Socialism."

[TBF]

7. Finally, time on Sunday morning to read the entire blog -

and I very much enjoyed it.

I especially loved this paragraph:

"Under capitalism, the inequality of women stems from exploitation of the working class by the capitalist class. But the exploitation of women cuts across class lines and affects all women. Marxism-Leninism views the woman question as a special question which derives from the economic dependence of women upon men. This economic dependence as Engels wrote over 100 years ago, carries with it the sexual exploitation of women, the placing of woman in the modern bourgeois family, as the proletariat' of the man, who assumes the role of 'bourgeoisie.'

I was told yesterday by another communist that women's issues are "social issues" and therefore not "substantive", and frankly that makes his view of the world just as warped as any Teabaggerati I have the misfortune to come across. It is imperative that we rid this world of capitalism, but to consider women's economic issues as less important is beyond the pale as far as I'm concerned. If anything, women around the world are doubly abused - oppressed by both our economic system and the men we deal with.