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[steve philion]

Carrol with 2 r's wrote:
My objection to Butler was _never_ that _no_ marxists fit her 
description; my objection was that it was intellectually dishonest to 
refuse to give _any_indication of which marxists in particular, or to 
indicate that there were major differences on the point. 

Martha Gimenez is a Marxist. Does she deny the importance of gender or 
sexual preference? 

Barbara Foley is a Marxist. Does she deny the importance of gender and 
sexual preference? 

If the answer to either of thes questions is No, then Butler is actually 
lying with the traditional dishonest academic's ploy of vague 
generalization without analysis. 

--I would add to this list 2 other Marxists whose contributions to the question of gender are valuable, Lise Vogal and Johanna Brenner....

Brenner has an outsdanding article on    On Gender and Class in U.S.
Labor History   in 1998 that every Marxist should read.  Her book is the essay in book form.    http://www.monthlyreview.org/1198bren.htm

Steve

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