-- From: ken <bbrow07@students.bbk.ac.uk>

Assuming that you mean feminism is a variant of Marxism, what exactly do you mean by Marxism?

Marxism reinterpreted history as class war, though in fact workers tended to cooperate with bosses and make war on competing workers, and similarly for capitalists. Marxism also reinterpreted the doctrine of inevitable progress as leading to a "classless" utopia, though somehow the intellectuals would be more equal than others in that utopia - note Marx's contemptuous and snobbish mistreatment of actual workers, and the striking lack of contact that Marx and Engles had with actual workers. Engles writings about the condition of the working class in England are based entirely on what one can see through the window of a coach and four horses while being driven from a luncheon party to a dinner party. Since we had inevitable progress, the past necessarily had to be demonized and made alien, and the further back it went, the greater the demonization and more strange and alien the past had to be, requiring an ever greater rewrite of history. Well time passed, and actual proletarians never showed much enthusiasm for the war effort, so by and by Marxists started looking for new wars, pouring the old wine into new bottles, the old wine being leadership by enlightened intellectuals, group warfare justifying the most horrifying misconduct, massive rewrites of history, and synchronized lying ("I heard this from the three different people, so it must be true") - and of course, far from oppressed intellectuals supposedly identifying themselves with distant groups they don't like very much. Observe all the diesel dyke feminists supposedly passionately seeking to protect attractive heterosexual women from date rape. These various isms are not marxism, not exactly, but they bare a striking resemblance to their parent. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG JTnG7EwKWGBKCLMjy9fEelUGWOaNVelhzQKnyKWj 4KYcVP6IOe2k/gw1LLqwMfH5ioyRfGUAvNrJFj/2o