Why the Taliban hate women...

[Carrol Cox]

Barbara Jeanne Fields has an excellent metaphor to mock these debates
about the relative importance of class, race, gender, etc. It is as if,
she says, mathematicians argued over whether to "privilege" the
denominator or the numerator of fractions.

Carrol

Gordon Fitch wrote:
> 
> joanna bujes wrote:
> > >Though I am a socialist and consider class divisions far more important
> > >than gender-based divisions,
> 
> Kelley:
> > i really don't think that being a socialist means that class division must
> > be given priority of place in analysis over gender, race, ethnicity, sexuality.
> 
> If socialism means "the ownership or control of the means of
> production by the workers, or by the people generally", it
> certainly starts with (economic) class.  If it doesn't mean
> this, what does it mean?
> 
> -- Gordon