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PHIL3395: Marx |
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Novy SP09 |
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Notes
on Lee Chapter 5 “Marxism and the Critique of Oppression” |
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Communists distain to conceal their views and aims. They openly declare t=
hat
their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing
social conditions. Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revoluti=
on.
The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world=
to
win. Working men of all countries, unite! |
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Lee’s claim:  =
; Oppression
is not reducible to the economic |
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\A “merely” Communist Revolution will necessarily be
incomplete |
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Reading Marx as a Phenomenology & Sexed Dialectics<=
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What is the relation of sex to labor? |
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Anna is simply not alienated like Marx’=
s archetypical
male worker |
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Marxist Feminist Critique |
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Patriarchal system |
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Capitalism seems both an ally and an enemy of
patriarchy |
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a. b. |
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10 =
Engels: Socializa=
tion
of domestic labor and childcare is necessary for women to fully become
members of the proletariat which is necessary for their liberation |
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Race and Revolution |
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To be Black & female is to occupy a labor
status as universally exploitable by heteropatriarchal & capitalist
systems |
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11 =
Culture of povert=
y |
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a. =
The “animal
functioning” is raced |
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b. =
Speaking in tongu=
es
is as replaced by public drunkenness |
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12 =
Racism and sexism=
are
good for the advance of profit |
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Gender Outlaws |
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Those most likely to be disenfranchised if not
precluded from membership in Marx’s proletariat are precisely those=
for
whom the revolution has become most imperative, namely … outlaws of=
the
dominant culture |
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13 =
Nuclear family=
217;s
political function in service to hetropatriarchal capitalism: |
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a. =
Limits sexual expression and gender role=
s in the interest of preserving |
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i. |
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ii.<=
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span>a sexed ontology of labor |
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b. =
Ensures continued
privilege to those empowered by heteropatriarchal capitalism |
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c. =
\Homosexuality, etc. embodies an innately radical crit=
ique
of traditional nuclear family (and so too, hetropatriarchal
capitalism) |
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14 =
Passing: Audre Lo=
rde:
the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house=
221; |