Class and Gender

Gar W. Lipow lipowg at sprintmail.com
Tue Jun 2 09:03:58 PDT 1998


Katha Pollitt <kpollitt at thenation.com> wrote
>
> Alexander Cockburn's love affair with the Militias makes my skin
> crawl. Is this where the "class, not race or gender" position leads? >To > romanticizing gun fetishists, religious fanatics, stalkers and killers?
> Best, katha

I think many of the lefts take on the militias is a case of a romanticized overreaction concealing a valid point. The valid point being that if the we on the left were doing our job right, some of these people would be turning to us and not the militias. I don't understand why it must be class OR gender. Can't it be class AND race AND gender (and sexual preference, and the environment) without subsumption?



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