Yeah, I agree.
> But I don't see all that much of a loss in
> that achievement, which you do, and Yoshie apparently more so. What's
> the counterfactual? Had there been no feminist movement the fight
> against capitalism would be in better shape? I doubt it. The
> capitalist restoration since the 1980s has come along with a backlash
> against feminism, no?
I also agree that there has been a severe backlash against feminism, especially in the United States - land of liberated women, free of the burlap sack - and I repeat that I think Yoshie describes capitalist ideology and culture more completely than current capitalist practise.
Counterfactual, though? Such a grubby word, such a grubby idea: almost always used for reactionary, dystopian purposes - it would almost always have been worse had things been otherwise. Suppose the feminist movement had been more fully revolutionary; suppose the 1960s generation was more oriented to the working class and less inclined to political adventurism; suppose most of the radicals had not been persuaded of the possibility of an anti-racist, anti-sexist, non-imperialist, liberal capitalism - well, I think we'd be in much better shape.