lbo-talk-digest V1 #5125

Kelley kwalker2 at gte.net
Mon Oct 22 19:26:26 PDT 2001


At 09:02 PM 10/22/01 -0500, Carrol Cox wrote:


>Mac, take a deep breath, step back, and approach this topic (whatever
>this topic is) independently of offering a defense of yourself against
>personal charges. Just ignore the charges. They are irrelevant to the
>subject matter.

there was utterly no personal attack or personal charges. it was a question concerning a theoretical position he took regarding the need to organize sex workers differently than other kinds of workers who do "service" work. he took a position years ago and didn't defend himself then and didn't recently when i asked. when sexual harassment came up and he indicated a desire to talk about something other than the war, i asked again: why does he justify organizing sex workers differently than apple pie bakers. his framework was sexist then or, at least, indicated a severe lack of knowledge about material that is two decades old--critiques of traditional marxist feminism.

you know the rave, we had this discussion on M-Fem.

and, i'd still like that critique of Cat. MacKinnon from McDondald!

kelley



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